Indigenous and minority place names : Australian and international perspectives / edited by Ian D. Clark, Luise Hercus and Laura Kostanski ; contributors Dr. Rob Amery [and seventeen others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clark, Ian D., 1958- editor.

Hercus, L. A. (Luise Anna), 1926-2018, editor.

Kostanski, Laura, editor.

Amery, Rob, 1954- contributor.

Series:

Aboriginal History Monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Names, Geographical--Australia.

Names, Geographical.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Canberra, ACT, Australia : The Australian National University Press, 2014.

Summary:

This book showcases current research into Indigenous and minority placenames in Australia and internationally.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Imprint and copyright information

Notes on Contributors

1. Introduction: Indigenous and Minority Placenames - Australian and International Perspectives

2. Comitative placenames in central NSW

3. The diminutive suffix -dool in placenames of central north NSW

4. Placenames as a guide to language distribution in the Upper Hunter, and the landnám problem in Australian toponomastics

5. Illuminating the cave names of Gundungurra country

6. Doing things with toponyms: The pragmatics of placenames in Western Arnhem Land

7. Locating Seven Rivers

8. 'Many were killed from falling over the cliffs': The naming of Mount Wheeler, Central Queensland

9. Saltwater Placenames around Mer in the Torres Strait

10. Pinning down Kaurna names: Linguistic issues arising in the development of the Kaurna Placenames Database

11. One name for one Place - but it is not always so

12. Why did squatters in colonial Victoria use Indigenous placenames for their sheep stations?

13. Multiple Aboriginal placenames in western and central Victoria

14. Dissonance surrounding the Aboriginal origin of a selection of placenames in Victoria, Australia: Lessons in lexical ambiguity

15. Duel-Names: How toponyms (placenames) can represent hegemonic histories and alternative narratives

16. Water for country, words for water: Indigenous placenames of north-west Victoria and south-west New South Wales

17. Obtuse anglers: The linguistics and ethnography of fishing ground names on Norfolk Island

18. Sámi placenames, power relations and representation

19. Please adjust your bearings…

20. Accommodating the Inuit majority: Traditional placenames in Nunavut today

21. Khoisan indigenous toponymic identity in South Africa.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 12, 2016).

ISBN:

9781925021639

1925021637

OCLC:

870965662

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.26530/OAPEN_502553