Melody and the Musical Articulation of Yolngu Identities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4000658 |
|---|---|
| Authors | P G Toner (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Pages | 69 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Yearbook for Traditional Music (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0740-1558 • E-ISSN: 2304-3857 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/4149322 |
| OpenAlex | W2045469158 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 19 |
In the ongoing anthropological conversation concerning the Yolngu people of northeast Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia, perplexing issues of social identity 100m large. Beginning with the so-called "Murngin controversy" from the 1930s to the 1950s, some of anthropology's leading lights have attempted to sort out the complexities of Yolngu marriage, the subsection system, the kinship system and local organisation, including W. Lloyd Warner, Claude Levi-Strauss, A.R. Radcliffe-Brown and Edmund Leach. The debates have undergone considerable changes since those days, but the continual analysis and re-assessment of Yolngu sociality continues to the present day in the work of Nancy Williams, Howard Morphy and Ian Keen
Aesthetics · Art · Articulation (sociology · Conversation · Identity (music · Kinship · Musical · Political science · Sociality · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Australian Indigenous Culture and History · Diverse Musicological Studies · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Communication · History · Law
Australian aboriginal concepts
The Yolngu and their land
Desert people
The Logic of Practice
Local Organization Among the Australian Aborigines
Tribal Organization in Eastern Arnhem Land
Profiles and Critiques in Social Theory
The Social Organization of Australian Tribes
Marriage and Descent in East Arnhem Land
Rethinking the Murngin Problem
The Structural Implications of Matrilateral Cross-Cousin Marriage
Structure and Significance in Aboriginal Song
Yuta Manikay
Songs of the Pintupi
Knowledge and Secrecy in an Aboriginal Religion
Inquest on the Murngin
"Murngin" (Wulamba) Social Organization
Murngin Social Organization
Morphology and Functions of the Australian Murngin Type of Kinship1
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,24 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2024 (20) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |