The land is a map : placenames of indigenous origin in Australia / edited by Luise Hercus, Flavia Hodges, Jane Simpson
- Bib ID:
- 679668
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Canberra : Pandanus Books, c2002
- xxiv, 304 p. : ill., maps, port. ; 30 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1740760204 (paperback)
- Summary:
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The entire Australian continent was once covered with networks of Indigenous placenames. These names often evoke important information about features of the environment and their place in Indigenous systems of knowledge. Very little is known about this system, but this book covers everything that is known.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Subject:
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- Names, Geographical -- Aboriginal Australian -- Congresses
- Names, Geographical -- Australia -- Congresses
- Language - Sociolinguistics - Secret and special languages
- Ngiyampaa / Ngempa language D22
- Yuwaalaraay / Euahlayi / Yuwaaliyaay people (D27) (NSW SH55-07)
- Yir Yoront people (Y72) (Qld SD54-15)
- Language
- Gamilaraay / Gamilaroi / Kamilaroi people (D23) (NSW SH55-12)
- Kaurna language L3
- Language - Vocabulary - Place names
- Arrernte / Aranda people (C8) (NT SG53-02)
- Adelaide map area (SE SA SI54-09)
- Cape York map area (Qld TSI SC54-12)
- Wimmera (NW Vic SJ54-03)
- Roper River map area (East Arnhem Land NT SD53-11)
- Western Desert (WA SF51, SF52, SG51, SG52)
- Adelaide (SE SA SI54-09)
- Armidale (NSW N Coast SH56-10)
- Flinders Ranges (NE SA SH54-09, SH54-13)
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- Copyright:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2002
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