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dc.contributor.authorRyan, John Sen
dc.date.accessioned2012-08-17T13:26:00Z-
dc.date.issued1964-
dc.identifier.citationOceania, 34(4), p. 278-307en
dc.identifier.issn0029-8077en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/11068-
dc.description.abstractIt has often been held that the number of native names occurring within the area of a tribal run depended directly upon the many creeks, waterholes, hills, rocks, or other natural features contained in the area for which there were special associations. In view of the very fragmentary nature of the records it is necessary to analyse the names from several such regions to obtain a reasonably representative overall picture. While the names are, generally, descriptive of the physical scene, they often commemorate particular associations, social and mental, events or situations - all of interest to us to-day. They serve as a mirror of the flora, the fauna, the changing landscape and the social history of the people who occupied regions now utilized in very different ways. While the actual collection of place-name material is a linguistic matter and the isolated toponym gives direct evidence of a linguistic nature only, the names have a generality not to say universality, that is denied to other antiquarian material and lacking in archaeological and historical evidence. By virtue of their spontaneous bestowal and the lack of calculated human interference in place names, they may often be deemed more reliable than uneven observation by historians or indirect inference by archaeologists. They are not merely intriguing as so many laymen often feel, but, after collation and proper presentation, they have an authority which is indisputable. Before embarking on the analysis of the names of the area chosen, I would like to pay a tribute to the work of many in an earlier day in collecting information from the inhabitants of the area in question. Despite inadequate phonetic or linguistic training, they recorded in isolation as accurately as they were able names which coincide to a remarkable degree with other independently verifiable evidence. The unsung heroes of this work are the officials of the Departments of Mines, of Lands and of Police, all of whom listed the odd items of vocabulary and nomenclature which their superiors catalogued in due course. It should be stated that the study is fraught with pitfalls, one of which is that it is not always clear whether a name is a toponym or a generic term. Where there is a reasonable inference that the former type is involved, the name has been included. This has been thought advisable in view of the need to preserve as fully as possible this record of the different modes of thought of the native race and the very different natural ecology and social fabric which all these names perpetuate.en
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherOceania Publicationsen
dc.relation.ispartofOceaniaen
dc.titleSome Aboriginal Place-Names on the Mid-North Coast of New South Walesen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.subject.keywordsSocial and Cultural Anthropologyen
dc.subject.keywordsGeomorphology and Regolith and Landscape Evolutionen
dc.subject.keywordsEnvironmental Sciencesen
local.contributor.firstnameJohn Sen
local.subject.for2008059999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classifieden
local.subject.for2008040601 Geomorphology and Regolith and Landscape Evolutionen
local.subject.for2008160104 Social and Cultural Anthropologyen
local.subject.seo2008829999 Plant Production and Plant Primary Products not elsewhere classifieden
local.subject.seo2008830503 Live Animalsen
local.subject.seo2008820699 Harvesting and Packing of Plant Products not elsewhere classifieden
local.profile.schoolSchool of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciencesen
local.profile.emailjryan@une.edu.auen
local.output.categoryC1en
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local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.identifier.epublicationsrecordune-20120814-141752en
local.publisher.placeAustraliaen
local.format.startpage278en
local.format.endpage307en
local.peerreviewedYesen
local.identifier.volume34en
local.identifier.issue4en
local.contributor.lastnameRyanen
dc.identifier.staffune-id:jryanen
local.profile.roleauthoren
local.identifier.unepublicationidune:11265en
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
local.title.maintitleSome Aboriginal Place-Names on the Mid-North Coast of New South Walesen
local.output.categorydescriptionC1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journalen
local.relation.urlhttp://www.jstor.org/stable/40329446en
local.search.authorRyan, John Sen
local.uneassociationUnknownen
local.year.published1964en
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