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Yolŋu languages and stories + digital media
The Mulka Project continue to produce beautiful and important art works. This is a stop motion animation about two young brothers who get lost in the bush for several days, directed and narrated by...
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Body parts, emotions and associated lovely things
I went to a brilliant seminar on the language of emotion in Dalabon by Maïa Ponsonnet yesterday. Dalabon is an endangered Gunwinyguan language spoken by less than twelve speakers in Arnhem Land....
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Difference, distance, respect and equality: an interview in Yolŋu matha and...
There is something to be said of the (near universal?) tension between difference, sameness and equality – and questions of which takes precedent over or subsumes the other (as Dumont well...
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No cheek is an island: Body parts in Yolŋu-matha
One of the things I love about living in Darwin is being surrounded by so many different languages on a daily basis. I’ve noticed over the past week, for example, that Kriol and Yolŋu-matha seem to...
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Head + ghost + dog = blunt ears: a curious language note
One of my few PhD fieldwork regrets is that I didn’t take the time to learn Yolŋu sign language. I had the great fortune of having a beer conversation with two long term researchers in this area...
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Uncanny and perhaps irrelevant language ‘joints’
I have spent the last few months writing the most difficult chapters that form the conceptual basis for my thesis. The best part of both these chapters, although it is not my forte, are...
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A brief descriptive note on types or ‘kinds of relations’ in Yolŋu matha
Burrut’tji by Djambawa Marawili I was thinking about categories of types of people/relations’ the other day, as in English we have family, friends, colleagues, team-mates etc. etc., and as my brain...
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The way value inheres: Yolŋu riŋgitj and its relationship to Malay ‘ringgit’
Munggurrawuy Yunupingu, Port of Macassar, 1947. There are many loan words from Malay and other Austronesian languages in the Yolŋu languages of east Arnhem Land (see Evans 1992). These derive from...
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