[Linganth] New ANU Press title (open access)

[Matt Tomlinson]

Hi all,


Members of the list may be interested in a recently published title from ANU Press, which, like all ANU Press titles are available for free downloading:


<https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/monographs-anthropology/carl-strehlow%E2%80%99s-1909-comparative-heritage-dictionary>

<https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/monographs-anthropology/carl-strehlow%E2%80%99s-1909-comparative-heritage-dictionary>

Carl Strehlow’s 1909 Comparative Heritage Dictionary: An Aranda, German, Loritja and Dieri to English Dictionary with Introductory Essays

Edited by Anna Kenny


Description: 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and his editor had planned to publish a language study that included this comparative dictionary, but it remained unpublished until now due to a number of complicated historical and personal circumstances of the main characters involved with the dictionary.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.


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Best regards,

Matt


Matt Tomlinson
Associate Professor of Anthropology
College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University

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