Inge Kral
Biographic Data
| ID | 96277 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Inge Kral |
| GIVEN NAMES | Inge |
| FAMILY NAME | Kral |
| SIGNATURE | KRAL I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5138-0937 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Eating as cultural practice
Through exploring what people eat and why, we pay attention to how Indigenous children in remote communities in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands of Western Australia are socialised into eating practices and food preferences. We look at how food practices have changed since first contact with settler‐colonial Australia, from ‘bush’ foods, to a frugal mission‐introduced damper, tea and sugar diet, to the consumption of ultra‐processed foods despite known he…
The illustrated literature of Solomon Cocky
In 1946, hundreds of Aboriginal workers left their place as indentured labourers on pastoral stations in the North-West of Australia. They went on to organise their own artisanal mines and buy their own pastoral stations, organising themselves collectively against the Australian government and the interests of local pastoralists. Some 30 years later, the ‘Strike Mob’ as they are remembered, established a school with its own publishing programme, …
James Wigley and the Strelley Mob
James Wigley has been historicised by Australian art scholars as a social realist, but the focus of his work through the late 1950s, 1960s and 1970s differed from others who were a part of this art movement. During this time, he returned again and again to join the “strike mob” who had walked off pastoral stations in the Pilbara in 1946 and become independent by mining and purchasing their own pastoral properties. The organiser of the strikers, D…
A ustralia and A otearoa/ N ew Z ealand, Language Research in
Focusing on ethnography as one of the defining characteristics of socially oriented language research, this entry surveys the relationship between language and communication and the role played by language in the cultural and social lives of individuals and communities in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. While much language research in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand has mirrored linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics internationally,…
Tekná – a vanishing oral tradition among the Kayan people of Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo
The documentation of the oral traditions of non-literate indigenous communities is a vital aspect of the preservation and survival of indigenous knowledge, culture and tradition. In this article, we discuss tekná, an oral tradition of the Kayan people in Sarawak. Here we trace not only the historical background of tekná, but also explore its current status and practices among the Kayan. We present an example of tekná sung by a Kayan elder. This f…
Exploring language and education policies for the indigenous minorities in Australia and Malaysia
This paper examines the implication of language and education policies for the indigenous minority populations in two contrasting multicultural and multilingual post-colonial nations, Australia and Malaysia. By comparing and contrasting ethnolinguistic and educational policies in these two diverse nations, this paper explores how indigenous minorities have been positioned within each nation's quest for meeting the challenges of becoming multiling…
Yipirinya School
Everyday watching and learning in an Indigenous Australian community
Family in mind
In the Ngaanyatjarra Lands in remote Western Australia children play a guessing game called mama mama ngunytju ngunytju ‘father father mother mother’. It is mainly girls who play the game, along with other members of their social network, including age-mates, older kin and adults. They offer clues about target referents and establish mutual understandings through multimodal forms of representation that include semi-conventionalized drawings on th…
Shifting perceptions, shifting identities
While a digital divide remains evident in many remote Indigenous Australian communities, individual and collective information and communication technologies practices have developed in accordance with broadband, satellite or WiFi availability. This article examines the ways in which Indigenous youth in remote Australia are ‘coming of age’ in contexts where digitally‐mediated social interaction is a taken‐for‐granted aspect of social practice, co…
The world with us
Talk, Text and Technology
Shifting perceptions, shifting identities
While a digital divide remains evident in many remote Indigenous Australian communities, individual and collective information and communication technologies practices have developed in accordance with broadband, satellite or WiFi availability. This article examines the ways in which Indigenous youth in remote Australia are ‘coming of age’ in contexts where digitally‐mediated social interaction is a taken‐for‐granted aspect of social practice, co…
Exploring language and education policies for the indigenous minorities in Australia and Malaysia
This paper examines the implication of language and education policies for the indigenous minority populations in two contrasting multicultural and multilingual post-colonial nations, Australia and Malaysia. By comparing and contrasting ethnolinguistic and educational policies in these two diverse nations, this paper explores how indigenous minorities have been positioned within each nation's quest for meeting the challenges of becoming multiling…
The world with us
Talk, Text and Technology
The world with us
Shifting perceptions, shifting identities
While a digital divide remains evident in many remote Indigenous Australian communities, individual and collective information and communication technologies practices have developed in accordance with broadband, satellite or WiFi availability. This article examines the ways in which Indigenous youth in remote Australia are ‘coming of age’ in contexts where digitally‐mediated social interaction is a taken‐for‐granted aspect of social practice, co…
Yipirinya School
Everyday watching and learning in an Indigenous Australian community
Family in mind
In the Ngaanyatjarra Lands in remote Western Australia children play a guessing game called mama mama ngunytju ngunytju ‘father father mother mother’. It is mainly girls who play the game, along with other members of their social network, including age-mates, older kin and adults. They offer clues about target referents and establish mutual understandings through multimodal forms of representation that include semi-conventionalized drawings on th…
A ustralia and A otearoa/ N ew Z ealand, Language Research in
Focusing on ethnography as one of the defining characteristics of socially oriented language research, this entry surveys the relationship between language and communication and the role played by language in the cultural and social lives of individuals and communities in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. While much language research in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand has mirrored linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics internationally,…
Tekná – a vanishing oral tradition among the Kayan people of Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo
The documentation of the oral traditions of non-literate indigenous communities is a vital aspect of the preservation and survival of indigenous knowledge, culture and tradition. In this article, we discuss tekná, an oral tradition of the Kayan people in Sarawak. Here we trace not only the historical background of tekná, but also explore its current status and practices among the Kayan. We present an example of tekná sung by a Kayan elder. This f…
Exploring language and education policies for the indigenous minorities in Australia and Malaysia
This paper examines the implication of language and education policies for the indigenous minority populations in two contrasting multicultural and multilingual post-colonial nations, Australia and Malaysia. By comparing and contrasting ethnolinguistic and educational policies in these two diverse nations, this paper explores how indigenous minorities have been positioned within each nation's quest for meeting the challenges of becoming multiling…
The illustrated literature of Solomon Cocky
In 1946, hundreds of Aboriginal workers left their place as indentured labourers on pastoral stations in the North-West of Australia. They went on to organise their own artisanal mines and buy their own pastoral stations, organising themselves collectively against the Australian government and the interests of local pastoralists. Some 30 years later, the ‘Strike Mob’ as they are remembered, established a school with its own publishing programme, …
James Wigley and the Strelley Mob
James Wigley has been historicised by Australian art scholars as a social realist, but the focus of his work through the late 1950s, 1960s and 1970s differed from others who were a part of this art movement. During this time, he returned again and again to join the “strike mob” who had walked off pastoral stations in the Pilbara in 1946 and become independent by mining and purchasing their own pastoral properties. The organiser of the strikers, D…
Eating as cultural practice
Through exploring what people eat and why, we pay attention to how Indigenous children in remote communities in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands of Western Australia are socialised into eating practices and food preferences. We look at how food practices have changed since first contact with settler‐colonial Australia, from ‘bush’ foods, to a frugal mission‐introduced damper, tea and sugar diet, to the consumption of ultra‐processed foods despite known he…
Sociology (8 works) · Indigenous (6 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (5 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)