Yan-nhanu atlas and illustrated dictionary of the Crocodile Islands
Baymarrwana, Laurie2014
Book
This atlas has three parts: maps and diagrams, a one hundred year history of the Crocodile Islands and an illustrated dictionary.
Main title:
Yan-nhanu atlas and illustrated dictionary of the Crocodile Islands / Laurie Baymarrwana.
Author:
Baymarrwana, Laurie, authorJames, Bentley, author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Laurie Baymarrwana and Bentley James, [2014]©2014.
Collation:
573 pages : colour illustrations, colour maps, portraits ; 31 cm.
Notes:
Relates to the Donald Thomson Collection of Aboriginal cultural heritage material.Includes bibliography pages 561-573 and index.English, Yan-nhanu and Yolngu matha.
Biography/History:
Laurie Baymarrwana, 2012 Senior Australian of the Year, was born nearly a hundred years ago on Murrungga, largest of the outer Crocodile Islands. For the last twenty years, she has been working on a trilingual atlas and dictionary for children. Together with anthropologist and linguist Bentley James, she has created the Yan-nhangu Atlas and Illustrated Dictionary of the Crocodile Islands. The nature of this project is such that it has been difficult to attract funding, for this reason Laurie Baymarrwana, one of the last speakers of Yan-nhangu, has explicitly instructed that the atlas shall not be put on the market for sale. The value of the atlas is as an educational tool and resource for the children of the remote homelands in north-east Arnhem Land, in the vacuum created by the government abolition of bilingual education. It is part of their cultural inheritance.
ISBN:
97809751719120975171917
Dewey class:
499.15
Language:
EnglishAustralian languages
Subject:
BRN:
324443