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dc.contributor.authorHale, Ken
dc.contributor.authorSutton, Peter
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-06T11:54:12Z
dc.date.available2021-10-06T11:54:12Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifierONIX_20211006_9781760464479_6
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50774
dc.description.abstractClassical Aboriginal societies in Australia have commonly been described in terms of social organisation and local organisation. This book presents rich detail on a third and related domain that has not been given the same kind of attention: linguistic organisation. Basing their analyses on fieldwork among the Wik peoples of Cape York Peninsula, north Australia, Peter Sutton and Ken Hale show how cosmology, linguistic variation, language prehistory, clan totemic identities, geopolitics, land use and land ownership created a vibrant linguistic organisation in a classical Aboriginal society. This has been a society long in love with language and languages. Its people have richly imbued the domain of rights and interests in country—the foundations of their native title as recognised in Australian law—with rights and interests in the abundance of languages and dialects given to them at the start of the world.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesAsia-Pacific Linguistics
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CB Language: reference and general::CBD Dictionariesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CB Language: reference and general::CBX Language: history and general worksen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguisticsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFF Historical and comparative linguisticsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHM Australasian and Pacific historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies::JBSL1 Ethnic groups and multicultural studies::JBSL11 Indigenous peoplesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::5 Interest qualifiers::5P Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests::5PB Relating to peoples: ethnic groups, indigenous peoples, cultures and other groupings of people::5PBA Relating to Indigenous peoplesen_US
dc.subject.otherWik people
dc.subject.otherAboriginal languages
dc.subject.otherCape York
dc.subject.otherMultilingualism
dc.titleLinguistic Organisation and Native Title
dc.title.alternativeThe Wik Case, Australia
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.22459/LONT.2021
oapen.relation.isPublishedByddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71
oapen.relation.isbn9781760464479
oapen.imprintANU Press
oapen.pages506
oapen.place.publicationCanberra


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