Murrinhpatha is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken in a region of tropical savannah
and tidal inlets on the north coast of the continent. Some 3000 speakers live mostly in the …

Successful communication hinges on keeping track of who and what we are talking about.
For this reason, person reference sits at the heart of the social sciences. Referring to …

This thesis is about the life and language of kardu kigay—young Aboriginal men in the town
of Wadeye, northern Australia. Kigay have attained some notoriety within Australia for their …

Speaking the Earth's Languages brings together for the first time critical discussions of
postcolonial poetics from Australia and Chile. The book crosses multiple Languages …

Wangga, originating in the Daly region of Australia's Top End, is one of the most prominent
Indigenous genres of public dance-songs. This book is organised around six repertories …

Song brings language and music together. Great singers are at once musicians and
wordsmiths, who toss rhythm, melody and word against one another in complex cross-play …

The heavy metal mobs of Wadeye (notorious in the media as 'heavy metal gangs') are a new
form of Aboriginal social organisation, almost entirely constituted by collateral kinship rather …

This book groups together three kinds of experience: the experience of the sublime,
of'epiphany'which is generally a profound experience of something ordinary, and the feeling …

In western Arnhem Land, a diverse song tradition—referred to as kun-borrk in Bininj Gunwok
language and manyardi in Mawng language—continues to be passed down over many …

One of the most stunning performances I ever witnessed was a djanba ceremony at
Peppimenarti near Wadeye in Australia's Northern Terri-tory in 1998. A group of about forty …