Preface and acknowledgements

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface and acknowledgements vii
4. General maps ix
5. Land and language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country 1
6. Appendix 27
7. Reconstructions
8. Connecting Thaypanic 39
9. Regions without borders 61
10. The Flinders Islands and Cape Melville people in history 85
11. Fission, fusion and syncretism 105
12. World views
13. Groups, country and personhood on the upper Wenlock River, Cape York Peninsula 139
14. Hyponymy and the structure of Kuuk Thaayorre kinship 159
15. Possession in Kuku-Thaypan through a comparative lens 179
16. Correlation of textual and spatial reference 199
17. Contacts and contrasts
18. Botanists, Aborigines and native plants on the Queensland frontier 221
19. ‘There is no truth whatever as regards any Aboriginal being flogged by the Police’ 241
20. Multiple views of paradise 263
21. Shared country, different stories 285
22. Transformations
23. Born, signed and named 305
24. The problem of ‘tribal names’ in eastern Australia 337
25. Going forward holding back 361
26. Same but different 383
27. The story of Old Man Frank 409
28. Repatriations
29. On the edges of their memories 435
30. Making gambarr 455
31. Index of places 481
32. Index of languages, language families and groups 483
33. General index 487