The two rainbow serpents travelling mura track narratives from the Corner Country
"The 'Corner Country', where Queensland, South Australia and New South Wales now converge, was in Aboriginal tradition crisscrossed by the tracks of the mura, ancestral beings, who named the country as they travelled, linking place to language. Reproduced here is the story of the two...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Acton, A.C.T. :
ANU E Press
2009.
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| Colección: | JSTOR Open Access monographs.
Aboriginal history monograph ; 18. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b34948387*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction
- Mura stories as cultural links
- General ceremonies gradually reiplacing the mura
- Survival of the mura stories
- The storytellers and their country
- The Ngatyi in the mythology of the Corner Country
- 2. The two rainbow serpents: original texts
- George Dutton's version
- Alf Barlow's version
- Walter Newton's version
- Comment / Hannah Quayle
- Comments / Cecil Ebsworth
- 3. Geographical names in the Two Ngatyi stories
- Introduction
- Discussion of the Placenames
- Territorial conclusions from the study of the placenames.
