Want to learn more....?

 

 

Below is a list of reading materials for those who want to learn more about our community and its history.  Only one of these has been written by an Arrakpi author (Lamilami, 1974). 

 

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Agalara, R., Brown, R. and S. Nangamu. (2012). “‘That spirit changed my voice’: the performance of kun-borrk at a funeral ceremony in Mikkinj valley outstation, Western Arnhem Land”. Musicological Society of Australia conference, Canberra: Australian National University.

 

Agalara, R., Barwick, L., Brown, R., Galaminda, J., Harris, A., Marett, A., Manmurulu, D., Manmurulu, J., Manumrulu, R., and S. Nangamu. (2012). “Continuing the history of cultural exchange in Arnhem Land: A mamurrng ceremony at Warruwi, Goulburn Island, August 2012', 11th Symposium on Indigenous music and dance, Canberra: Australian National University.

 

Agalara, R., Brown, R., Nangamu, S., Mardday, E. and E. Makanawarra. (2012). “Kun-borrk kore Kunbarlanja, korroko dja bolkkime (Kun-borrk at Kunbarlanja, then and now). Stone Country Festival, Gunbalanya, Northern Territory.

 

Austin, T. (1998)  ‘Taming the Yolngu: Methodists, Race, and Schooling in Arnhem Land 1916-1939’ in Austin, T. and Parry, S. (eds.)  Connections and Disconnections: Encounters between settlers and Indigenous people in the Northern Territory. Northern Territory University, Darwin.

 

Baker, G. (2010). "'We just cry for our country': 'The boycott' and the Goulburn Islanders." Australian Historical Studies 41(3): 302-318.

 

Berndt, C. H. (1985). ‘Mondalmi: One of the Saltwater People’ in White, I., Barwick D. and Meehan, B. (eds.) Fighters and Singers: The Lives of Some Australian Aboriginal Women. George Allen & Unwin, Sydney.

 

Brown, R. “The Role of Songs in Connecting the Living and the Dead: A Funeral Ceremony for Nakodjok in Western Arnhem Land.” In Circulating Cultures: Indigenous Music, Dance and Media across Genres in Australia, edited by Amanda Harris. Canberra: Australian National University Press, 2014 (forthcoming).

 

Brown, R., Manmurulu, David and Jenny, and O’Keefe, I. (2013). “Music and wellbeing in western Arnhem Land”. Symposium on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Music and Wellbeing, Melbourne: University of Melbourne.

 

Brown, R. (2013). “The communicative powers of spirit language manyardi’: songs from Goulburn Island, Northern Australia”.Australian Linguistic Society conference, Melbourne: University of Melbourne

 

Brown, R. (2013). “’Those kobah-kobanj (old people) are listening to us’: historical, spatial and spiritual awareness in the performance ofkun-borrk at Goulburn Island, Northern Territory” Department of Performance Studies postgraduate seminar, Sydney: University of Sydney.

 

Brown, R. (2012). “Performing ‘deceased’ languages? Solomon Nangamu’s Manangkardi mirrijpu (seagull) songs and the living tradition of kun-borrk in western Arnhem Land”. 3rd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, Manoa: University of Hawai’i.

 

Brown, R., Manmurulu, David, Jenny and Rupert, O’Keeffe, Isabel (2014). “Continuing the history of cultural exchange in Arnhem Land: a mamurrng ceremony at Warruwi, Goulburn Island, August 2012”. Breaking barriers in research and thinking, Canberra: AIATSIS.

 

Brown, R., O’Keefe, I. and Singer, Ruth (2014). “Learning from the language of music: Expanding the Mawng lexicon through research on performing arts practices”. Australian Languages Workshop, Kialoa coastal campus: ANU.

 

Capell, A. and Hinch, H. (1970).  Maung grammar; texts and vocabulary. Mouton, The Hague.

        

Dewar, M. (1989). Strange Bedfellows: Europeans and Aborigines in Arnhem Land Before World War II.  Masters of Arts with Honours, University of New England, Armidale.

 

Elkin, A., Berndt, R. and Berndt C. (1951). ‘Social Organization of Arnhem Land: I. Western Arnhem Land.’ Oceania. v21: pp253-301.

 

Ellemor, R. (1966). Warruwi Jubilee 1916 - 1966. Spectator Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd, Melbourne.

 

Gould, J. (2010).  Being in the Black: the business of development in Northern Australia.  PhD Thesis, Australian National University, Canberra.

 

Kadiba, J. (1998). The Methodist Mission and the Emerging Aboriginal Church in Arnhem Land 1916 – 1977.  PhD Thesis, Northern Territory University, Darwin.

 

Lamilami, R. L. (1974). Lamilami Speaks: The Cry Went Up - A Story of the People of Goulburn Islands, North Australia. Ure Smith, Sydney.

 

Lovitt, C. (1996). Containing Aboriginality: A social history of basket weaving in the Methodist Missions of Arnhem Land. Honours Thesis, University of Melbourne, Melbourne.

 

MacKnight, C. C. (1976). The Voyage to Marege' - Macassan trepangers in northern Australia. Melbourne University Press, Sydney.

 

O'Keefe, I. (2010). Kaddikkaddik ka-wokdjanganj ‘Kaddikkaddik Spoke’: Language and Music of the Kun-barlang Kaddikkaddik Songs from Western Arnhem Land. Australian Journal of Linguistics. 30(1): pp35-51.

 

Parry, S. (1998).  ‘Mission Endeavour: The Impact of Christian Missions on Aboriginal Health’ in Austin, T. and Parry, S. (eds.)  Connections and Disconnections: Encounters between settlers and Indigenous people in the Northern Territory. Northern Territory University, Darwin.

 

Peteram, L, Stacey, N, and Flemming, A. (2014).  Future sea changes: Indigenous women's preferences to climate change on South Goulburn Island, Northern Territory (Australia),  Climate and Development.

 

Petheram, L, Fleming, A, Stacey, N & Perry, A. (2013).  Indigenous women’s preferences for climate change adaptation and aquaculture development to build capacity in the Northern Territory. National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, Gold Coast.

 

Singer, R. (2006)  Agreement in Mawng: Productive and lexicalised uses of agreement in an Australian language. PhD thesis, University of Melbourne, Melbourne.

 

Smith, D. (2006). Regionalised governance processes in the Northern Territory: The West Central Arnhem Regional Authority. Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research Seminar Series, Australian National University, 27th September 2006, Canberra.  Accessed on October 6th, 2006 from http://www.anu.edu.au/caepr/events.php#IWB

 

Smith, D. (2008). ‘Cultures of governance and the governance of culture: transforming and containing Indigenous institutions in West Arnhem Land’ in Hunt et al. (eds).  Contested Governance – Culture, power and institutions in Indigenous Australia.  CAEPR Research Monograph No. 29.  Australian National University E Press, Canberra: pp75-112.

 

Veland, S., R. Howitt, D. Dominey-Howes, F. Thomalla and D. Houston (2013). "Procedural vulnerability: Understanding environmental change in a remote indigenous community." Global Environmental Change-Human And Policy Dimensions 23(1): 314-326.

 

Veland, S., R. Howitt and D. Dominey-Howes (2010). "Invisible institutions in emergencies: Evacuating the remote Indigenous community of Warruwi, Northern Territory Australia, from Cyclone Monica." Environmental Hazards 9(2): 197-214.