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Bonyhady, Tim
Griffiths, Tom
Words for Country - Landscape and Language in Australia

Words for Country: Landscape and Language in Australia. Tim Bonyhady with a story from Tasmania about the politics of place-naming.

Words for Country, edited by Tim Bonyhady and Tom Griffiths, brings together a collection of essays that show how the words we use to name or describe or discuss landscape powerfully influence and shape the way we experience and manage our environment.

Politics is at the core of their book, say the editors. Conflicts over land ownership, control and use loom large. And much of this politics and conflict has involved the replacement of European names with Aboriginal ones.

The transformation of Fraser Cave on Tasmania's Fraklin River into Kutikina Cave is an unusual example. Tim Bonyhady tells the story.
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Words for Country: Landscape and Language in Australia (Paperback)
Tim Bonyhady, Tom Griffiths
Verlag: UNSW Press, 2001
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The Australian National University, Canberra

Professor Tom Griffiths
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Professor Tom Griffiths

Stories and phrases can powerfully shape the ways we experience and manage our environment. What languages have been used to characterise Australian landscapes and how have they influenced the way we see and treat our environment? How do stories take root in particular places? How do we find the right words for those parts of the country that matter to us? "Words for Country" answers these questions while exploring the inter-relationship between Australia's landscape and language. Tim Bonyhady and Tom Griffiths have brought together a collection of essays whose subjects range from the Ord River in the far north-west to Antarctica in the south, from the centre to the coast, the prehistoric to the present. Their terrain is environmental and cultural, political and poetic. Words for Country reveals not just how language grows out of the landscape but how words and stories shape the places in which we live.

Full contents

• 'Lubra Creek' / Rebe Taylor
• 'The River Runs Backwards' / Heather Goodall
• 'These Blarsted Hills' / P. R. Hay
• 'Scarcely Any Water on Its Surface' / Kirsty Douglas
• 'Everyone Who has Ever Done a Tree Sit Always Says That the Tree Talks to You' / Nicholas Brown
• 'The Spirit of the Plains Kangaroo' / Howard Morphy and Frances Morphy
• 'The Graveyard of a Century' / Brigid Hains
• 'So Much for a Name' / Tim Bonyhady
• 'Blackfellow Oven Roads' / Paul Sinclair
• 'The Ends of the Earth' / Mark Peel
• 'Natural Beauty, Man-Made' / Jay Arthur and 190
• 'Uluru' / Michael Cathcart
• 'The Outside Country' / Tom Griffiths
• It's Only Words / George Seddon.