Kurangara in Queensland

A Critique of Duncan‐Kemp 's Account

Bibliographic Data

ID18930249
AuthorsDavid Nash (0000-0002-6675-6527, Australian National University, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume93
Issue1
Pages41-56
Publication date2023-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueOceania (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0029-8077 • E-ISSN: 1834-4461
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/ocea.5361
OpenAlexW4323833957
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited17

A particular historical travelling religious complex in northern Western Australia, usually known as Kurangara , has been the subject of anthropological attention since the late 1930s. Overlooked in all the literature is a similar account assigned to 1912–1918, in the distant Channel Country of southwest Queensland. This is in Alice Duncan‐Kemp's last book, published in 1968. My examination shows that a good deal of Duncan‐Kemp's account repeated parts of a 1954 popular magazine about Kurangara in the Pilbara. In other respects Duncan‐Kemp may have drawn on her own childhood experiences, but in the absence of corroboration her account has to be considered unreliable

Genealogy · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies

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