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Barungguan
The Barungguan are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Cape York Peninsula of Northern Queensland. The name is associated with three languages: Ganganda, Umpithamu and Morrobolam. Name The anthropologist Donald Thomson classified them (speaking of them as the ''Yintjinga'') as one of what he called the Kawadji peoples. Country According to Norman Tindale, writing in 1974, the Barungguan had about of tribal land, on the western side of Princess Charlotte Bay and extending northwards towarCape Sidmouth Their furthest northern limit appears to have been around the Rocky River, beyond which they rarely ventured. Social organisation The Barungguan were organized into clans the names of at least two of which are known: * ''Umbuigamu'' * ''Umbindhamu'' As with the neighbouring Walmbaria, tooth avulsion was practiced on all members of either sex among the Barungguan, with either the right or left upper incisor extracted for ritual purposes. Alternative names * ''Baka.'' (Kaan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umpithamu Language
Umpithamu, also spelt Umbindhamu, is an Australian Aboriginal language of the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia. In July 2020, ''A Dictionary of Umpithamu'' was published, compiled by Flemish linguist Jean-Christophe Verstraete, with main language consultants Florrie Bassani and her niece Joan Liddy. Classification Though generally accepted as a branch of the Paman languages, Dixon believes it to be an isolate. According to Rigsby (1997), Umpithamu shares some grammatical features with the other languages spoken by the Lamalama people, but it shares more lexicon with Ayapathu and Umpila. In 2008, Verstraete wrote that there were four languages associated with the Lamalama people: Umpithamu, Morrobolam, Mba Rumbathama (Mbarrumbathama, Lamalama) and Rimanggudinhma language (Mbariman-Gudhinma). In 2020, he spoke of five languages associated with the Lamalama people, but the name of the fifth is not recorded in the article. He is quoted by Austlang from his 2018 work, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morrobolam Language
The Morrobolam language, formerly known as Morrobalama and Umbuygamu, is a possibly extinct Paman languages, Paman language from Princess Charlotte Bay in far-north Queensland in Australia which was spoken by a group the Lamalama people. History In 1898, the Aboriginal Australian, Aboriginal population of the Princess Charlotte Bay area numbered around 1,000. However, white settlement of the region caused them to lose almost all of their traditional lands. The many Aboriginal groups of the region were forcibly moved to mission station, missions and were exposed to diseases like syphilis and Spanish influenza. This resulted in the Aboriginal population of the region declining by 90% from 1898 levels. In the 1930s many of the surviving Aboriginal people were moved to the Old Lockhart River Mission. Those Aboriginal people who remained in their territory were from the several language groups of the Lamalama people: Morrobalam, Lamalama language, Lamalama (also known as Mba Rumba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kawadji
The Uutaalnganu people, also known as Night Island Kawadji, are an Aboriginal Australian group of Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland. The name is also used collectively for several peoples in this area, such as the Pontunj / Jangkonj (Yanganyu), whose language is unconfirmed. Name ''Kawadji'' formerly referred to a people who inhabited Night Island and the coastal strip opposite. It now refers primarily to a modern aggregation of six peoples, collectively known by the same ethnonym ''kawadji'' which means "people of the sandbeach" (''pama malnkana''). These groups, the Umpithamu/Koko Ompindamo, Pakadji, Yintyingka, Otati, Umpila and Pontunj are the traditional owners and users of the coastal areas east of the Great Dividing Range of northeastern Cape York from Oxford Bay to Princess Charlotte Bay. History The traditional Kawadji of Night Island were a small population and intermarried with clans of the mainland Barungguan. The Night Island Kawadji were known for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walmbaria
The Walmbaria are an indigenous Australian people of Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland. Name The Walmbaria presently represent themselves as Dingaal, and in land claims the Walmbaar Aboriginal Corporation defines the Dingaal they represent as adult people of the Dingaal clan or people or community having a Dingaal patrilineal descent, or who were adopted by such a person, A Dingaal father is someone who descends on their father's side from any of the Baru, Yoren or Charlies families. Language The Walmbaria name for their language was, according to Norman Tindale, ''Yalgawara'', which was spoken in two dialect versions, one for the mainland branch, the other for the islanders. Morer recent work has preferred the term ''Gambilmugu''. Country The Walmbaria's traditional lands are estimated to have encompassed approximately , extending over the reefs and Flinders island group north of Princess Charlotte Bay. Their southern limits were between a site called Alumukuan in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aboriginal Australian
Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Mainland Australia, Australian mainland and many of its islands, such as Tasmania, Fraser Island, Hinchinbrook Island, the Tiwi Islands, and Groote Eylandt, but excluding the Torres Strait Islands. The term Indigenous Australians refers to Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders collectively. It is generally used when both groups are included in the topic being addressed. Torres Strait Islanders are ethnically and culturally distinct, despite extensive cultural exchange with some of the Aboriginal groups. The Torres Strait Islands are mostly part of Queensland but have a Torres Strait Regional Authority, separate governmental status. Aboriginal Australians comprise List of Aboriginal Australian group names, many distinct peoples who have developed across Australia for over 50,000 years. These peoples have a broadly shared, though complex, genetic history, but only in the last 200 years have they been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bakanambia
The Bakanambia, also known as the Wanbara, are an Aboriginal group of Australia. Traditionally, the Bakanambia lived in the vicinity of Princess Charlotte Bay in the state of Queensland. One of the ethnonyms applied to them was Lama Lama, which is now used of a larger aggregation of remnants of several tribes. Country The Bakanambia's lands covered the southern and eastern shores of Princess Charlotte Bay, and extended inland as far as the tidal limits of the Normanby and north Kennedy rivers, and included Lakefield. The coastal zone is swamp ridden and covered by mangroves, which means that the Bakanambia mainly lived along the aforementioned rivers. Their territory is estimated to have covered an area of around . Language Bakanambia was a member of the Lama subgroup of north Queensland Pama–Nyungan languages. According to Norman Tindale, the Bakanambia suffered from a statistically high incidence of cleft palate, a factor which influenced their language. History of cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ANU Press
ANU Press (or Australian National University Press; originally ANU E Press) is an open-access scholarly publisher of books, textbooks and journals. It was established in 2004 to explore and enable new modes of scholarly publishing. In 2014, ANU E Press changed its name to ANU Press to reflect the changes the publication industry had seen since its foundation. History ANU Press was Australia's first primarily electronic academic publisher. ANU Press justified its foundation by mentioning the desire to publish scholarly works that would not necessarily gain profit, and the belief that online publishing was an viable alternative to traditional academic publishing that overcame the inaccessibility, costs, and requirements for setup that were inherent in traditional publishing. Activities ANU Press produces on average 50–60 fully peer-reviewed research publications each year, and maintains a website featuring over 700 recent and back-list titles. It is recognised by the De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Journal Of The Royal Anthropological Institute Of Great Britain And Ireland
The ''Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute'' (JRAI) is the principal journal of the oldest anthropological organization in the world, the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Articles, at the forefront of the discipline, range across the full spectrum of anthropology, embracing all fields and areas of inquiry – from sociocultural, biological, and archaeological, to medical, material and visual. The JRAI is also acclaimed for its extensive book review section, and it publishes a bibliography of books received. History The journal was established in 1901 as ''Man'' and obtained its current title in 1995, with volume numbering restarting at 1. For its first sixty-three volumes from its inception in 1901 up to 1963 it was issued on a monthly basis, moving to bimonthly issues for the years 1964–1965. From March 1966 until its last issue in December 1994, it was published quarterly as a "new series", with a new sequence of volume numbers (1–29). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oceania (journal)
''Oceania'' is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal that was established in 1930. It covers social and cultural anthropology of the peoples of Oceania, including Australia, Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia, and Southeast Asia. The journal publishes research papers as well as review articles, correspondence, and shorter comments. Occasionally, a special issue is devoted to a single topic, comprising thematically connected collections of papers prepared by a guest editor. The journal is published by Wiley-Blackwell and the editors-in-chief are Jadran Mimica (University of Sydney) and Sally Babidge (University of Queensland). Past editors include Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, Adolphus Peter Elkin, Raymond Firth and Nancy Williams Nancy May Williams (born 4 March 1959) is a New Zealand former cricketer who played as an all-rounder, batting right-handed and bowling either right-arm off break or medium pace. She appeared in 4 Test matches and 19 One Day Internationals for .... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Records Of The South Australian Museum
The South Australian Museum is a natural history museum and research institution in Adelaide, South Australia, founded in 1856 and owned by the Government of South Australia. It occupies a complex of buildings on North Terrace in the cultural precinct of the Adelaide Parklands. Plans are under way to move much of its Australian Aboriginal cultural collection (the largest in the world), into a new National Gallery for Aboriginal Art and Cultures. History 19th century There had been earlier attempts at setting up mechanics' institutes in the colony, but they struggled to find buildings which could hold their library collections and provide spaces for lectures and entertainments. In 1856, the colonial government promised support for all institutes, in the form of provision the first government-funded purpose-built cultural institution building. The South Australian Institute, incorporating a public library and a museum, was established in 1861 in the rented premises of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aboriginal History
''Aboriginal History'' is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal published as an open access journal by Aboriginal History Inc. It was established in 1977 (co-founded and edited by Diane Barwick) and covers interdisciplinary historical studies in the field of the interactions between Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous peoples. The Journal has been described as "... a flagship of the field of Australian Aboriginal history." The journal's scope includes the areas of Australian Indigenous history and oral histories, languages, biographies, bibliographic guides and archival research. It has also brought previously unpublished manuscripts and research in the fields of Australian archaeology, anthropology, linguistics, demography, sociology, law and geography to the professional and wider public. A focus on cultural, political and economic history is complemented by critiques of current events of relevance to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Institute Of Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Studies
The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), established as the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (AIAS) in 1964, is an independent Australian Government statutory authority. It is a collecting, publishing and research institute and is considered to be Australia's premier resource for information about the cultures and societies of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The institute is a leader in ethical research and the handling of culturally sensitive material'Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Library, Information and Resource Network (ATSILIRN) Protocols for Libraries, Archives and Information Services', http://atsilirn.aiatsis.gov.au/protocols.php, retrieved 12 March 2015‘'AIATSIS Collection Development Policy 2013 – 2016'’, AIATSIS website, http://aiatsis.gov.au/sites/default/files/docs/about-us/collection-development-policy.pdf, retrieved 12 March 2015 and holds in its collections many unique and irrepla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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