Aboriginal placenames : naming and re-naming the Australian landscape / edited by Harold Koch and Luise Hercus
- Bib ID:
- 4691693
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- Canberra : ANU E Press and Aboriginal History Inc, c2009
- xxi, 496 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781921666087
- Series:
- Aboriginal history monograph ; 19.
- Full contents:
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- Introduction: Old and new aspects of Indigenous place-naming / Harold Koch and Luise Hercus
- NSW & ACT: 1. Aboriginal placenames around Port Jackson and Botany Bay, New South Wales, Australia: sources and uncertainties / Val Attenbrow
- 2. Reinstating Aboriginal placenames around Port Jackson and Botany Bay / Jakelin Troy and Michael Walsh
- 3. The recognition of Aboriginal placenames in New South Wales / Greg Windsor
- 4. New insights into Gundungurra place naming / Jim Smith
- 5. The methodology of reconstructing Indigenous placenames: Australian Capital Territory and south-eastern New South Wales / Harold Koch
- Victoria: 6. Toponymic books and the representation of Indigenous identities / Laura Kostanski
- 7. Reviving old Indigenous names for new purposes / Laura Kostanski and Ian D. Clark
- 8. Reconstruction of Aboriginal microtoponymy in western and central Victoria: case studies from Tower Hill, the Hopkins River, and Lake Boga / Ian Clark
- South Australia & Central Australia: 'Aboriginal names of places in southern South Australia': placenames in the Norman B.Tindale collection of papers / Paul Monaghan
- 10. Why Mulligan is not just another Irish name: Lake Callabonna, South Australia / J.C. McEntee
- 11. Murkarra, a landscape nearly forgotten: the Arabana country of the noxious insects, north and northwest of Lake Eyre / Luise Hercus
- 12. Some area names in the far north-east of South Australia / Luise Hercus
- 13. Placenames of central Australia: European records and recent experience / Richard Kimber
- Northern Australia: 14. Naming Bardi places / Claire Bowern
- 15. Dog-people: the meaning of a north Kimberley story / Mark Clendon
- 16. 'Where the spear sticks up': the variety of locatives in placenames in the Victoria River District, Northern Territory / Patrick McConvell
- 17. 'This place already has a name' / Melanie Wilkinson, Dr R. Marika and Nancy M. Williams
- 18. Manankurra: what's in a name? placenames and emotional geographies / John J. Bradley and Amanda Kearney
- 19. Kurtjar placenames / Paul Black.
- Notes:
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- Includes bibliographical references.
- Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at the publisher's home page: http://epress.anu.edu.au.
- Subject:
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- Names, Geographical -- Aboriginal Australian
- Names, Geographical -- Australia
- Gundungurra / Gundungura / Gandangara language (S60) (NSW SI56-09)
- Bardi people (K15) (WA SE51-02)
- Language - Vocabulary - Place names
- Kurtjar people (G33) (Qld SE54-07)
- Coxs River (Blue Mountains NSW SI56-05)
- Lake Eyre map area (NE SA SH53-04)
- Hopkins River (W Vic SJ54-12)
- Lake Callabonna (NE SA SH54-06)
- Port Jackson (Sydney SI56-05)
- Australian Capital Territory (ACT SI55-16)
- Tower Hill (W Vic SJ54-11)
- Lake Boga (NW Vic SI54-16)
- Botany Bay (S Sydney NSW SI56-05)
- Kimberley area (WA SD51, SD52, SE51, SE52)
- Victoria River (North NT SD52, SE52)
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