[RNLD] Publications - Personal naming practices in Indigenous groups in Australia

[Mark Clendon]

Hi Lesley,

Traditional Worrorra naming practices are outlined on pp 8-9 in ‘Worrorra: a language of the northwest Kimberley coast,’ published by the University of Adelaide Press in 2014.

Best wishes,

Mark.

 

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From: Peter Austin <pa2 at soas.ac.uk> 
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To: Lesley Woods <lhwoods1 at bigpond.com>
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Subject: Re: [RNLD] Publications - Personal naming practices in Indigenous groups in Australia

 

Dear Lesley

 

I'm not sure what your reference is to Austin 1978 (my PhD thesis?) but there is a brief discussion of the various patterns of naming in the Mantharta languages of Western Australia in Section 1.8.4 of my incomplete "A Grammar of the Mantharta Languages, Western Australia". The 2015 version is available on Academia (https://www.academia.edu/15938656/A_Grammar_of_the_Mantharta_Languages_Western_Australia). You see that people are addressed and referred to in a range of ways, including kinship terms, totemic classes, totems, and various kinds of place names (paternal, maternal, own -- there are suffixes used in constructing these) and personal names (it is taboo for one to utter one's own personal name). I briefly mention adaptation to European naming conventions by taking one of these, e.g. patrilineal class totem as a family name. If you want more details than what is in that document please let me know.

 

For Diyari, I wrote a blog post on 13 June 2010 about English language naming practices over seven generations: https://www.paradisec.org.au/blog/2010/06/contemporary-aboriginal-naming-practices/ (see also the comments).

 

I hope this is of some use. Best wishes with your research,

Peter

 

 


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On Thu, 14 May 2020 at 03:03, Lesley Woods <lhwoods1 at bigpond.com <mailto:lhwoods1 at bigpond.com> > wrote:

Hi Everyone,

I was wondering if anyone knows of fairly recent publications that talk about naming practices of people by Indigenous groups in Australia.  For example, suffixes that are used on proper nouns when used as terms of address.

I have some older references: Austin 1978 & Breen 1971 but I was wondering if there were more recent publication out there.

Any help would be most appreciated.

Cheers 

Lesley 




 

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