Author: Publisher: ISBN: 9781864651171 Category : English language Languages : en Pages : 173
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The Luritja Picture Dictionary is part of an innovative series of illustrated Aboriginal language dictionaries. This picture dictionary is a valuable resource for school children and their teachers, for Luritja speakers wanting to learn Luritja literacy, and for anyone wanting to learn about the Luritja language of Central Australia.
Author: Anna Kenny Publisher: ANU Press ISBN: 1760462071 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 399
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Carl Strehlow’s comparative dictionary manuscript is a unique item of Australian cultural heritage; it is a large collection of circa 7,600 Aranda, 6,800 Loritja (Luritja) and 1,200 Dieri to German entries compiled at the beginning of the twentieth century at the Hermannsburg Mission in central Australia. It is an integral part of Strehlow’s ethnographic work on Aboriginal cultures that his German editor Baron Moritz von Leonhardi published as Die Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral-Australien (Strehlow 1907–1920) in Frankfurt. Strehlow and his editor had planned to publish a language study that included this comparative dictionary, but it remained unpublished until now due to a number of complicated historical and personal circumstances of the main characters involved with the dictionary. Strehlow’s linguistic work is historically and anthropologically significant because it probably represents the largest and most comprehensive wordlist of Indigenous languages compiled in Australia during the early stages of contact. It is an important primary source for Luritja and Aranda speakers. Both languages are spoken in homes and taught in schools in central Australia. The reasons for presenting this work as a heritage dictionary—that is, as an exact transcription of the original form of the handwritten manuscript—are to follow the Western Aranda people’s wishes and to maintain its historical authenticity, which will prove to be of great use to both Indigenous people and scholars interested in language.
Author: Summer Institute of Linguistics. Australian Aborigines Branch Publisher: ISBN: Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 298
Author: Jenny Green Publisher: Iad Press ISBN: Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 198
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The Central Anmatyerr Picture Dictionary is part of an exciting series of illustrated dictionaries published for Aboriginal languages in Central Australia. It provides a valuable educational resource for Anmatyerr school children and their teachers, for Anmatyerr speakers wanting to learn Anmatyerr literacy, and for anyone wanting to learn something about the Anmatyerr language. Compiled by an experienced linguist with three Anmatyerr-speaking communities and their elders, the book includes translations of Anmatyerr sentences into English, a spelling and pronunciation guide, and a map of Anmatyerr communities and surrounding areas.
Author: Tom Güldemann Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107003687 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 747
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Offers a linguistic window into contemporary hunter-gatherer societies, looking at how they survive and interface with agricultural and industrial societies.
Author: Brian Clive Devlin Publisher: Springer ISBN: 9811020787 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 386
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This book provides the first detailed history of the Bilingual Education Program in the Northern Territory of Australia. This ambitious and innovative program began in 1973 and at different times it operated in English and 19 Aboriginal languages in 29 very remote schools. The book draws together the grassroots perspectives of Indigenous and non-Indigenous practitioners and researchers. Each chapter is based on rich practitioner experience, capturing bottom-up aspirations, achievements and reflections on this innovative, yet largely undocumented language and education program. The volume also makes use of a significant collection of ‘grey literature’ documents to trace the history of the program. An ethnographic approach has been used to integrate practitioner accounts into the contexts of broader social and political forces, education policy decisions and on-the-ground actions. Language in education policy is viewed at multiple, intersecting levels: from the interactions of individuals, communities of practice and bureaucracy, to national and global forces. The book offers valuable insights as it examines in detail the policy settings that helped and hindered bilingual education in the context of minority language rights in Australia and elsewhere.
Author: Gordon Briscoe Publisher: ANU E Press ISBN: 1921666218 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 250
Book Description
Briscoe's grandmother remembered stories about the first white men coming to the Northern Territory. This extraordinary memoir shows us the history of an Aboriginal family who lived under the race laws, practices and policies of Australia in the twentieth century. It tells the story of a people trapped in ideological folly spawned to solve 'the half-caste problem'. It gives life to those generations of Aboriginal people assumed to have no history and whose past labels them only as shadowy figures. Briscoe's enthralling narrative combines his, and his contemporaries, institutional and family life with a high-level career at the heart of the Aboriginal political movement at its most dynamic time. It also documents the road he travelled as a seventeen year old fireman on the South Australia Railways to becoming the first Aboriginal person to achieve a PhD in history.
Author: Carl Merrison Publisher: ISBN: 9781925360707 Category : Aboriginal Languages : en Pages : 62
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Black Cockatoo is a vignette that follows Mia, a young Aboriginal girl as she explores the fragile connections of family and culture. Mia is a 13-year-old girl from a remote community in the Kimberley. She is saddened by the loss of her brother as he distances himself from the family. She feels powerless to change the things she sees around her, until one day she rescues her totem animal, the dirran black cockatoo, and soon discovers her own inner strength. A wonderful small tale on the power of standing up for yourself, culture and ever-present family ties.
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