Owners versus Bubu Gujin

Land Rights and Getting the Language Right in Guugu Yimithirr Country

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2476183
AutoresJohn B Haviland (0000-0003-0125-3432)
Ano1996
Volume6
Fascículo2
Páginas145-160
Data de publicação1996-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Linguistic Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1055-1360 • E-ISSN: 1548-1395
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/jlin.1996.6.2.145
OpenAlexW2021672697
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas1

Recent Queensland Aboriginal land rights legislation and court decisions have produced a series of land claims since 1992. Many claims involve speakers of Guugu Yimithirr (GY), residents of Hopevale Aboriginal Community who are descended both from local Aborigines and from others. Much of the support for claims of "traditional" ownership flows from putative owners' knowledge of GY speech practices. Yet legal constructions of such practices accord with invented, rather than historical, "traditions." Heretofore, strictly local matters of appropriate GY talk and complex patterns of multilingualism and linguistic affiliation have been refashioned, recast, and exported into wider arenas as part of the process of legitimizing land claims. In that process, language and land-far from offering community-are among the ingredients of division and conflict

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