Land and Language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country

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Land and Language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country Editorial page Title page LCC data Table of contents Preface and acknowledgements General maps Land and language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country 1. Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country 1.1 The anthropological sciences 1.2 Contact history and indigenous policy 2. Bruce Rigsby 3. This volume 3.1 Reconstructions 3.2 World views 3.3 Contacts and contrasts 3.4. Transformations 3.5 Repatrations 4. Conclusion References Appendix: Bibliography of Bruce Rigsby 1. Books and volumes 2. Articles and chapters 3. Book Reviews 4. Consultant’s reports, affidavits etc (complete up to 2009) Connecting Thaypanic 1. Introduction 2. Membership and external context of this family 2.1 Languages 2.2 Alaya-Athima and its neighbours 3. Borrowing and genetic subgrouping 4. Sounds and transcription 5. Lexical evidence 6. Grammatical evidence 6.1 Imperative *-ng 6.2 Instrumental-Locative *-bV 6.3 Pronouns 7. The relationship of Kuku-Yalandji to these languages 8. Possible inclusion of other East Coast languages with the preceding 9. Remarks and Conclusions References Regions without borders 1. Introduction 2. General features of rock art distribution 3. Princess Charlotte Bay 4. Normanby and upper Endeavour Rivers 5. The Laura/Quinkan area 5.1 Localities 5.2 Overview 6. The western margins: Kennedy and Hann Rivers and the Koolburra Plateau 6.1 Localities 6.2 Overview 7. Rock art and its relationships 7. 1 Continuity 7.2 Zones of rock art 7.3 Boundaries and transitions 8. Conclusions: Regions without borders References The Flinders Islands and Cape Melville people in history 1. Introduction 2. History 2.1 Archaeology 2.2 Explorers’ accounts 2.3 Anthropologists’ accounts 3. The people 4. Traditional affiliations 4.1 Languages and wider categories 4.2 Clans and traditional land ownership 4.3 Traditional relationships between groups References Fission, fusion and syncretism 1. Introduction 2. Background 2.1 Environmental Background 2.2 Overview of current Wellesley Region archaeological evidence 3. A revised hypothesis of Tangkic linguistic history 4. Fission and territorialization 4.1 The role of Allen Island as a staging point for migration to Bentinck Island 4.2 Relevant findings on fission from the Western Desert 4.3 Comparison with post-contact fissions and successions following local depopulations 5. Fusion of new groups following initial fission event 6. Understanding territorial and demographic vulnerability from extreme flood events and the need for flood refuge – more recent ethnographic evidence 7. Conclusion Acknowledgements References Groups, country and personhood on the upper Wenlock River, Cape York Peninsula 1. Introduction 2. Kaanju people on the upper Wenlock River 3. Thomson’s Kaanju genealogies 4. ‘Classical’ social organization and personhood on the upper Wenlock River 5. ‘Post-classical’ trajectories: Continuity and change References Hyponymy and the structure of Kuuk Thaayorre kinship 1. Introduction 1.1 Kuuk Thaayorre 1.2 Previous studies 2. Linguistic subsystems and covert categories 3. Hyponymic relationships between subsystems 3.1 Hand signs and the bereavement lexicon 3.2 Bereavement and vocative terms 3.3 Vocative and referential terms 3.4 Summary: Sense relations between kinship subsystems 4. Kuuk Thaayorre kinship in typological perspective 5. Conclusion References Possession in Kuku-Thaypan through a comparative lens 1. Introduction 2. Warlpiri ‘kin possession’ expressions 2.1 Kin possession 2.2 Alienable possession 2.3 Propositus suffixes: Anaphor versus pronoun 3. Waanyi kin relation expressions 4. Concluding observations References Correlation of textual and spatial reference 1. Introduction 2. Jawoyn: The language and its demonstrative system 2.1 Forms and meanings of demonstratives 2.2 The semantics of Identifiable forms 2.3 Identifiable and Immediate forms in narrative 2.3.1 Identifiable forms 2.3.2 Immediate and Distal forms 2.4 Conclusion 3. Dalabon and Bininj Gun-Wok: Comparisons 4. Conclusions References Botanists, Aborigines and native plants on the Queensland frontier 1. Introduction 2. The institutionalisation of botanical studies 3. Starvation 4. The Protectors and the botanists 4.1 Archibald Meston 4.2 Walter Edmund Roth 5. The end of the frontier and the rise of settler economic success 6. Conclusion References ‘There is no truth whatever as regards any Aboriginal being flogged by the Police’ 1. Introduction 2. The Northern Frontier 3. Removal Orders 3.1 Removals in Queensland 3.2 Removals from Coen and the Batavia goldfield 3.3 Negative publicity 4. The fire at the Police Camp 5. The aftermath of the fire 6. Conclusion References Archival records Newspapers Multiple views of paradise 1. Introduction: The Queensland School 2. Nature as scary and in need of domination 3. The conservationist view 4. Eco-tourism 5. Humans in the ‘wilderness’ 6. The Indigenous view 6.1 Text 6.2 Commentary 7. Ways of seeing nature 8. Why the exclusion? References Shared country, different stories 1. Introduction 2. A post-settler vignette 2.1 Two local Whitefellas 2.2 Ganggalida people – ‘traditional owners’ 2.3 The anthropologist 2.4 Blurred boundaries 2.5 Fictional representations 2.6 The regional Aboriginal leader 3. Discussion: Shared country, different stories Acknowledgements References Born, signed and named 1. Introduction 2. Historical background 2.1 Classical situation 2.2 Contact 3. System of land/sea tenure 3.1 The language of ownership 3.2 Principles of tenure over country 3.2.1 Tindale and an alternative model 3.2.2 Principles of affiliation 4. Naming, country and affiliation 4.1 Names in the traditional setting 4.2 Names in the contemporary setting 5. Conclusion: social change, naming change, and the maintenance of links to country References Going forward holding back 1. Introduction 2. Engaging with cultural change 2.1 Pre-Mission period 2.2 The Second Period: The Mission establishment 2.3 “Government” time 2.4 Changes in the later government period 3. Remote living choices 3.1 A mobile lifestyle 3.2 Remote town and outstation living 3.3 Sharing 3.4 Language and kin solidarities 3.5 Alcohol management 4. Life in the city 4.1 Art enterprise 4.2 Battling on in the city 4.3 Itinerants 4.4 Discussion 5. Living in two cultural worlds 6. Conclusion References Same but different 1. Introduction 2. Shared histories under The Act 3. Yarrabah 3.1 Who came together at Yarrabah Mission and why 3.2 How did people live? 3.3 Languages spoken on the Mission 3.4 Other factors influencing language contact outcomes 4. Barambah/Cherbourg 4.1 How people lived 4.2 The languages of Cherbourg 4.3 Exposure to English 5. Taroom/Woorabinda 5.1 How did people live? 5.2 Languages spoken at Taroom/Woorabinda 5.3 Other factors in language contact outcomes 6. Summary and Conclusions References The story of Old Man Frank 1. Introduction 2. Cultural and linguistic changes in northern Cape York Peninsula 3. Settlement 4. Narratives of language shift: Coercion and agency 5. The story of Old Man Frank References Making gambarr 1. “Repatriation”: A fieldtrip in 2009 2. Gambarr: “ancient” technologies and social life at HV in the late 1970s 3. Changing demographies and the coming of “land rights” in the 1980s 4. Photography, narrative, and interaction 5. The 2009 visit to Hopevale References Index of places Index of languages, language families and groups General index