Linguistic Organisation and Native Title The Wik Case, Australia
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ArtikelSerie: Utgivningsinformation: Canberra ANU Press ANU Press [Imprint] 2021Beskrivning: 1 electronic resource (506 p.)Innehållstyp: - text
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- online resource
- 9781760464479
- Interest qualifiers
- Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests
- Relating to peoples: ethnic groups, indigenous peoples, cultures and other groupings of people
- Relating to Indigenous peoples
- Language and Linguistics
- Language: reference and general
- Dictionaries
- Language: history and general works
- Linguistics
- Historical and comparative linguistics
- Society and Social Sciences
- Society and culture: general
- Social groups, communities and identities
- Ethnic studies
- Ethnic groups and multicultural studies
- Indigenous peoples
- History and Archaeology
- History
- Australasian and Pacific history
- 5 Interest qualifiers
- 5P Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests
- 5PB Relating to peoples
- 5PBA Relating to Indigenous peoples
- Aboriginal languages
- C Language and Linguistics
- CB Language
- CBD Dictionaries
- CBX Language
- CF Linguistics
- CFF Historical and comparative linguistics
- Cape York
- J Society and Social Sciences
- JB Society and culture
- JBS Social groups
- JBSL Ethnic studies
- JBSL1 Ethnic groups and multicultural studies
- JBSL11 Indigenous peoples
- Multilingualism
- N History and Archaeology
- NH History
- NHM Australasian and Pacific history
- Wik people
- communities and identities
- cultures and other groupings of people
- ethnic groups
- general
- history and general works
- indigenous peoples
- reference and general
- thema EDItEUR
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Classical Aboriginal societies in Australia have commonly been described in terms of social organisation and local organisation. This book presents rich detail on a third and related domain that has not been given the same kind of attention: linguistic organisation. Basing their analyses on fieldwork among the Wik peoples of Cape York Peninsula, north Australia, Peter Sutton and Ken Hale show how cosmology, linguistic variation, language prehistory, clan totemic identities, geopolitics, land use and land ownership created a vibrant linguistic organisation in a classical Aboriginal society. This has been a society long in love with language and languages. Its people have richly imbued the domain of rights and interests in country—the foundations of their native title as recognised in Australian law—with rights and interests in the abundance of languages and dialects given to them at the start of the world.
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