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oapen-20.500.12657-507742021-10-07T02:43:12Z Linguistic Organisation and Native Title Hale, Ken Sutton, Peter Wik people Aboriginal languages Cape York Multilingualism bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CB Language: reference & general::CBD Dictionaries bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CB Language: reference & general::CBX Language: history & general works bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics::CFF Historical & comparative linguistics bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJM Australasian & Pacific history bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSL Ethnic studies::JFSL9 Indigenous peoples 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. 2021-10-06T11:54:12Z 2021-10-06T11:54:12Z 2021 book ONIX_20211006_9781760464479_6 9781760464479 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50774 eng Asia-Pacific Linguistics application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International book.pdf ANU Press ANU Press 10.22459/LONT.2021 10.22459/LONT.2021 ddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71 9781760464479 ANU Press 506 Canberra open access
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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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