Ebook: The land is a map: placenames of indigenous origin in Australia

The entire Australian continent was once covered with networks of Indigenous placenames. These names often evoke important information about features of the environment and their place in Indigenous systems of knowledge. Very little is known about this system, but this book covers everything that is known.;Overview: 1. Indigenous placenames: an introduction / Luise Hercus and Jane Simpson -- 2. The concept of place among the Arrernte / David Wilkins -- 3. Transparency versus opacity in Aboriginal placenames / Michael Walsh -- 4. Changing places: European and Aboriginal styles / Patrick McConvell -- 5. Is it really a placename? / Luise Hercus -- Documenting placenames: 6. On the translatability of placenames in the Wik region, Cape York Peninsula / Peter Sutton -- 7. Names and naming: speaking forms into place / Franca Tamisari -- 8. 'I'm going to where-her-brisket-is': placenames in the Roper / Brett Baker -- 9. The archaism and linguistic connections of some Yir-Yoront tract-names / Barry Alpher -- 10. Some remarks on placenames in the Flinders / Bernhard Schebeck -- Reconstructing placenames systems: 11. Blown to Witewitekalk: placenames and cultural landscapes in north-west Victoria / Edward Ryan -- 12. Weeding out spurious etymologies: toponyms on the Adelaide plains / Rob Amery -- 13. Placenames in Yuwaalaraay, Yuwaaliyaay and Gamilaraay languages of north-west New South Wales / Anna Ash -- 14. Naming the dead heart: Hillier's map and Reuther's gazetteer of 2,468 placenames in north-eastern South Australia / Philip Jones -- Interaction between the two placenames systems: 15. 'What name?': the recording of indigenous placenames in the western desert of South Australia / Paul Monaghan -- 16. 'What they call that in the whites?': Ngiyampaa and other placenames in a New South Wales Ngurrampaa / Tamsin Donaldson -- Assigning and reinstating placenames: 17. Creating Aboriginal placenames: applied philology in Armidale city / Nicholas Reid -- 18. Reclaiming through renaming: the reinstatement of Kaurna toponyms in Adelaide and the Adelaide plains / Rob Amery and Georgina Yambo Williams -- Appendix: Guidelines for the recording and use of Aborlginal and Torres Strait Islander placenames / Committee for Geographical Names in Australasia -- Index of places and placenames -- Index of languages and language groups.