ERIC Number: EJ959930
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Publication Date: 2006
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Western Maps/Yanyuwa Meaning: An Interview with John Bradley
Devlin-Glass, Frances
Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, v35 p90-101 2006
In July 2003 an important one-volume text, "Forget about Flinders: A Yanyuwa atlas of the south west gulf of Carpentaria" (Yanyuwa Families, Bradley & Cameron, 2003) produced in a limited edition of 14 copies, returned to Yanyuwa country and to the families who collaborated with John Bradley and artist Nona Cameron on the project. Subsequently, a second edition of 20 copies has been released, mainly to institutions. It is the most comprehensive attempt yet to restore Yanyuwa names to country and to produce a multilayered, dynamic, history-rich, and bilingual representation of how country is known in this community, and how the central song cycle texts intersect with Yanyuwa tradition. What follows is a condensed and edited interview with Frances Devlin-Glass, in which John Bradley discusses the motivations, the hybridised methodologies employed, the innovations of this new genre, and the pedagogical ends served by this latest iteration of Yanyuwa song cycles. ["Western Maps/Yanyuwa Meaning: An Interview with John Bradley" was written with John Bradley.] (Contains 2 figures.)
Descriptors: Singing, Maps, Bilingualism, Indigenous Populations, Languages, Foreign Countries, Interviews, Geographic Regions, History, Atlases
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