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Linguistic Organisation and Native Title: The Wik Case, Australia (Asia-Pacific Linguistics) - Softcover

Sutton, Peter; Hale, Kenneth Locke

 
9781760464462: Linguistic Organisation and Native Title: The Wik Case, Australia (Asia-Pacific Linguistics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1760464465 ISBN 13: 9781760464462
Publisher: ANU Press, 2021

Synopsis

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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Publisher
ANU Press
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1760464465
ISBN 13 
9781760464462
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
506