Aboriginal names of places in Western AustraliaForrest, John
Some Aboriginal names of places in TasmaniaMilligan, Joseph
Notes on Some Victorian Aboriginal Names for Plants and Animals "The article discusses changes in scientific work (academic and applied) associated with new potentials, but also coercions of information technologies. Background for this interest is the experience gained in several digital library pro....
人类学家J·D·麦卡锡曾经于1946年写过一本《新南威尔士州的土著地名》(NSW Aboriginal Places Names),其中提到伍尔卢莫卢有可能来源自“Wallamullah”或者“Wallabahmullah”,前者意为“富饶之地”,后者意为“一只年轻的黑袋鼠”。 Anthropologist J.D. McCarthy wrote in 'NSW Aboriginal Places Names', in ...
Names have meanings, and not just in the way that they tag people, places or objects. I am of the opinion that names go to the core of culture and personal identity in a way that our corporate/fast-food/market-driven society often fails to appreciate or espouse. ...
It is designed for everyone to use, residents, tourists, teachers and historians. It will also continue to evolve with ongoing collaboration and development. This digital story project achieved its goal to reveal Aboriginal place names and languages and to encourage hesitant primary and high school ...
appropriate for the gibber plains, none more so thanSturt's Stony Desert. It is believed by some to be the most inhospitable place in Australia. In 1845 Sturt spoke of 'heating and parching blasts' as he walked across it. On other continents there are different names for this type of ...
names, places, events, and cultural objects facilitates the sharing of Aboriginal culture and stories with all who are interested in searching the archives. These include stories about Aboriginal politicians, for example Inuit Senator Charlie Watt who represents Quebec. I had the pleasure of working ...
«what's up w/ Ghanaians + their strange names like Sunday, Goodluck, Happy, etc.» which segued to a monologue about cannibalism (his father back in Ghana had to change his name for fear of being cannibalized to subsume the powers implied by his name) + eventually to a yelling ...
The Aborigines identified these groups by totemic names based on Dreamtime creation beliefs. For example one group may have been "Black Swan" people, another "Blue Tongued Lizard" people or "Blue Gum Tree" people. The totemic system itself meant that people from one group could not marry ...