Linda Rive interviewed by Gregg Borschmann in the Environmental awareness in Australia oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 3048077
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Rive, Linda, 1954-, interviewee
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- Description:
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- 2003
- 8 digital audio tapes (ca. 520 min.)
- Series:
- Environmental awareness in Australia oral history project.
- Summary:
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Rive, a translator, recalls her family background in rural England; her father's work as a farmer and gardner who worked on various estates for English gentry and royalty, giving descriptions of these estates and traditional farming; her early years in Adelaide, S. A. (late 1970s), where she first heard the Pitjantjatjara language spoken and resolved to learn and speak the language fluently; life in various Aboriginal communities over extended periods from 1979 onwards, including Ironwood Bore (no longer a community), Fregon and Wingellina (Irrunytju); her late husband, a Pitjantjatjara/Nyangahyatarra man; descriptions of contemporary Aboriginal culture; latent racism in Alice Springs.
- Biography/History:
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Linda Rive, is a translator of central Australian Aboriginal languages, fluent speaker of Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara, the senior manager of Ngaanyatjarra/Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara (NPY) Aboriginal Women's Council, Alice Springs.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on Oct. 29, 2003; Nov. 1, 2003; Nov. 7, 2003; Nov. 8, 2003.at Alice Springs, N.T.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Translators
- Other authors/contributors:
- Borschmann, Gregg (Gregg John), 1955-, interviewer
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This belongs to the Environmental awareness in Australia oral history project.
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