Dhudhuroa and Yaithmathang languages and social groups in north-east Victoria - a reconstruction
- Authors: Clark, Ian
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Aboriginal History Vol. 33, no. (2010), p. 201-229
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- Description: The determination of Aboriginal languages in north-east Victoria has been acknowledged by a number of authors as one of the most problematical areas in the reconstruction of Victorian Aboriginal languages and dialects at the time of first contact.[1] Of particular interest is the Omeo district and resolution of the labels ‘Jaithmathang’ and ‘Gundungerre’. This article will provide a systematic analysis of primary sources relative to language, dialect and social group names. It also provides an overview of lexicostatistical analyses of vocabulary from the study area and undertakes a preliminary analysis of vocabulary from the Omeo district to determine its similarity with neighbouring languages. Finally it analyses previous research into constituent social groups.
George Augustus Robinson on Charles Joseph La Trobe: personal insights into a problematical relationship
- Authors: Clark, Ian
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: The La Trobe Journal Vol. , no. 85 (May) (2010), p. 13-21
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Sustainable water management in tourism accommodation
- Authors: Lehmann, La Vergne , Clark, Ian
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: The 5th World Conference for Graduate Research in Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure
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Timothy Korkanoon: A child artist at the Merri Creek Baptist Aboriginal School, Melbourne, Victoria, 1846-47 - a new interpretation of his life and work
- Authors: Clark, Ian
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australian Aboriginal Studies Vol. , no. 1 (2010), p. 31-41
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- Description: This paper is concerned with the Coranderrk Aboriginal artist Timothy Korkanoon. Research has uncovered more about his life before he settled at the Coranderrk station in 1863. Evidence is provided that five sketches acquired by George Augustus Robinson, the former Chief Protector of Aborigines, in November 1851 in Melbourne, and found in his papers in the State Library of New South Wales, may also be attributed to the work of the young Korkanoon when he was a student at the Merri Creek Baptist Aboriginal School from 1846 to 1847.
Footprints : The journey of Lucy and Percy Pepper
- Authors: Clark, Ian
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australian Aboriginal Studies Vol. , no. 1 (2009), p. 100
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Ladjiladji language area : A reconstruction
- Authors: Clark, Ian , Ryan, Edward
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australian Aboriginal Studies Vol. , no. 1 (2009), p. 77-88
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- Description: In this reconsideration of the Ladjiladji language area in north-west Victoria, we contend that while Tindale's 'classical' reconstruction of this language identified a fundamental error in Smyth's earlier cartographic representation, be incorrectly 'corrected' that error. We review what is known about Ladjiladji and through a careful analysis demonstrate not only the errors ill both Smyth and Tindale but also Proffer a fundamental reconstruction grounded ill the primary sources.
- Description: 2003007344
Naming sites : Names as management tools in indigenous tourism sites - An Australian case study
- Authors: Clark, Ian
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Tourism Management Vol. 30, no. 1 (2009), p. 109-111
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- Description: This paper considers the naming history of indigenous rock art sites in the Grampians-Gariwerd National Park in southwest Victoria, Australia. These sites are found to present management problems because many of the names are dysfunctional, and fail as information markers. Rather than contribute to the creation of positive atmosphere and sacralization, many site names have contributed to site vandalism, disfigurement of signage and negative word of mouth promotion. The function of site naming and their role in place making is reconsidered from the insights of leading theorists in attraction systems such as MacCannell, Gunn, and Leiper. Naming, it is argued, is a very important management tool in the protection and promotion of rock art tourism. © 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
- Description: 2003007359
Reconstruction of Aboriginal microtoponymy in western and central Victoria : Case studies from Tower Hill, the Hopkins River, and Lake Boga
- Authors: Clark, Ian
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Aboriginal placenames naming and re-naming the Australian landscape Chapter 8 p. 207-221
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Reviving old Indigenous names for new purposes
- Authors: Kostanski, Laura , Clark, Ian
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Aboriginal placenames naming and re-naming the Australian landscape Chapter 7 p. 189-206
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The case of Peter Mungett : Born out of the allegiance of the Queen, belonging to a sovereign and independent tribe of Ballan
- Authors: Cahir, David (Fred) , Clark, Ian
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Provenance : The Journal of Public Record Office Victoria Vol. 8, no. (2009), p.15-34
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- Description: This paper is concerned with the jurisdiction of the British colonial criminal law over Indigenous Australians, particularly in the area of serious offences such as murder and rape. In particular, the paper examines the attempted use in the 1860 case of Regina v Peter of the legal demurrer that the accused Aboriginal man was not subject to the jurisdiction of the court because he was not born a British subject and had never entered into allegiance to the British Queen. The paper also discusses some of the difficulties which the legal authorities found in dealing with this issue, even as late as 1860. The issue of the amenability to British law was a significant one in the early colonial period; it then largely disappeared from serious public consideration but has resurfaced since the 1980s in the context of land rights, native title, and the status of Aboriginal customary law.
- Description: 2003007342
‘An edifying spectacle’ : A history of ‘tourist corroborees’ in Victoria, Australia, 1835–1870
- Authors: Cahir, David (Fred) , Clark, Ian
- Date: 2009
- Type: Journal article
- Relation: Tourism Management Vol.31, no.3 (2010), p. 412-420
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- Description: Parsons [Parsons, M. (2002). “Ah that I could convey a proper idea of this interesting wild play of the natives” corroborees and the rise of indigenous Australian cultural tourism. Australian Aboriginal Studies, 2(1), 14–27.] has persuasively argued that nineteenth century corroborees performed for non-indigenous audiences may be considered to be Australia's pre-eminent prototypical indigenous cultural tourism product. This paper extends Parsons' [Parsons, M. (1997). The tourist corroboree in South Australia. Aboriginal History, 21(1), 46–69; Parsons, M. (2002). “Ah that I could convey a proper idea of this interesting wild play of the natives” corroborees and the rise of indigenous Australian cultural tourism. Australian Aboriginal Studies, 2(1), 14–27.] analyses of ‘tourist corroborees’ in nineteenth century South Australia to corroborees staged in Victoria during the pastoral period and the gold rushes of the 1850–1870s. It argues that an Aboriginal-grown ‘business acumen’ developed rapidly in the economic climate of the Victorian goldfields. It also provides a historical context to this commodification.
Aboriginal spatial organization in far northwest Victoria - A reconstruction
- Authors: Clark, Ian , Ryan, Edward
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: South Australian Geographical Journal Vol. 107, no. (2008), p. 15-48
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- Description: This paper is concerned to re-examine Aboriginal spatial organization in the far northwest region of Victoria from Mildura to the Victorian border with South Australia. RMW Dixon (Working Papers) has noted that there is a multiplicity of names of groups in this region, and their status must be resolved. It does this by examining the primary sources and nineteenth century reconstructions such as Thomas, Goodwin, Smyth, Mathews, and Howitt, and then through a more critical analysis of twentieth century reconstructions such as Tindale. It finds that south of the Murray River and west of Mildura there were two language groups: Keramin (which included Jarijari at Mildura) and Yuyu to their west. Keramin at Mildura claimed country on both sides of the Murray River, however the Yuyu were only on the southern side of the river. The northern side of the Murray River belonged to Marawara, the southernmost dialect of Pakantji. The presence of the Marawara south of the Murray River is considered a post-contact adaptation.
Multiple Aboriginal place names in Western Victoria, Australia
- Authors: Clark, Ian
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Twenty-third International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, Toronto, Canada : 17th-22nd August 2008
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- Description: In a recent paper on transparency versus opacity in Australian Aboriginal place names, linguist Michael Walsh (2002: 47) noted that in ‘Aboriginal Australia it is relatively common for a given place to have multiple names’. In providing an overview of multiple naming practices Walsh (2002: 47) stated the ‘simplest case is one place having two names. Such doublets can be intralectal or crosslectal. For intralectal doublets where there are two names for the one place in the same lect, both placenames may be opaque, both transparent, or one opaque and one transparent. … The same applies to crosslectal doublets where two names for the one place come from different lects’. Walsh (2002) observed that he was unclear on how multiple naming works and what its function is. Other than some case studies (Schebeck 2002 re Flinders Ranges, Sutton 2002 re the Wik region, Cape York, and Tamisari 2002), we are yet to gain a comprehensive picture for Aboriginal Australia. This paper adds to this discussion through a consideration of multiple naming in western Victoria using the results of research conducted by Clark and Heydon (2002) into Victorian Aboriginal place names. The paper also considers the policy implications of multiple indigenous naming for place name administration in Victoria. Victoria has adopted a dual naming policy that recognises a non-indigenous and an indigenous toponym for the one place but is yet to accept multiple indigenous naming.
- Description: 2003007363
The northern Wathawurrung and Andrew Porteous, 1860-1877
- Authors: Clark, Ian
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Aboriginal History Vol. 32, no. (2008), p. 97-108
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- Description: The operation of the Central Board and the Board for the Protection of Aborigines in Victoria has been studied by Marcard, Penney and Clark. There are numerous studies of particular stations and reserves that existed during the operation of the Board; for example, Lake Condah, Framlingham, Ebenezer and Coranderrk. A third tier of study relates to particular individuals and, though these studies are not expressly concerned with their responsibilities as 'Honorary Correspondents' to the Board, they nevertheless discuss relationships with Aborigines. This paper adds to these studies by concentrating on one of those correspondents, Andrew Porteous
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- Description: 2003006899
Why should they pay money to the Queen?: Aboriginal miners and land claims
- Authors: Cahir, David (Fred) , Clark, Ian
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of Australian Colonial History Vol. 10, no. 1 (2008), p. 115-128
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- Description: There is little evidence of Aboriginal involvement in the events of the Eureka Stockade, but there are numerous ways in which Aboriginal people are relevant to the Eureka story. The events took place on Aboriginal land (an obvious but rarely articulated truth) and Aboriginal people were present on the Ballarat diggings, as they were, indeed, on and around most Australian goldfields. The records are full of references to their fundamental and diverse contribution to life and work on the diggings, and to the complex and varied relationships they formed with the invaders. For Indigenous communities already reeling from the invasion of pastoralists, the arrival of 300,000 immigrant miners, swarming onto the alluvial districts of Victoria, represented a second wave of dispossession. But as we have noted elsewhere, there is abundant evidence that gold, at least in Victoria, brought many new economic opportunities for Aborigines, many of whom took advantage of these changed circumstances.' David Goodman argues persuasively for historians to consider an 'edgier interpretation' of the goldfields story. This could include a better appreciation of the social dislocation and cultural adaptations experienced by Indigenous people on the goldfields .
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‘The Comfort of Strangers’:Hospitality on the Victorian Goldfields, 1850–1860
- Authors: Clark, Ian , Cahir, David (Fred)
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management Vol. 15, no. 2 (2008), p. 2-7
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The abode of malevolent spirits and creatures - Caves in Victorian Aboriginal social organization
- Authors: Clark, Ian
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Helictite Vol. 40, no. 1 (2007), p. 3-10
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- Description: A study of Aboriginal associations with Victorian caves finds that there is a rich cultural heritage associated with caves. This association has been found to be rich and varied in which caves and sink holes featured prominently in the lives of Aboriginal people - they were often the abodes of malevolent creatures and spirits and some were associated with important ancestral heroes, traditional harming practices, and some were important in the after death movement of souls to their resting places. Aboriginal names for caves, where known, are discussed.
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- Description: 2003005213
Homage tourism - Ella Fitzgerald, war memorials, and all that jazz
- Authors: Clark, Ian , Hollick, Mary
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at CAUTHE 2006 conference - to the city and beyond, Melbourne : 6th February, 2006
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- Description: ‘Homage tourism’ is able to include a range of forms of tourism such as visits to memorials, cemeteries, and places where special events took place. Homage tourism then is capable of being understood as a continuum from the sacred homage of religious pilgrimage embracing spiritual subjects at one end to secular or profane homage embracing the sacralization of cultural celebrities and critical events at the other. Secular homage often uses the language and behaviour of the sacred discourse and acts towards and refers to the subject or object of the homage in sacred-like ways - associated places become sacred sites, structures become shrines, actions become religious rites. This paper will explore two dimensions of secular homage, that of adulation or acclaim or tribute and remembrance. It will explore the former through focussing on jazz tourism and in particular the tourism of adulation that has emerged around jazz vocalist Ella Jane Fitzgerald, and the latter through an examination of visitation to the Australian Ex-Prisoner of War Memorial in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Though visitation to a war memorial or visitation to places associated with important people may appear disparate they both share the commonality that they are external actions with reverential intent, they are both examples of homage tourism.
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- Description: 2003001817
Land succession and fission in nineteenth-century Western Victoria: The case of Knenknenwurrung
- Authors: Clark, Ian
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australian journal of anthropology Vol. 17, no. 1 (2006), p. 1-14
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- Description: This article examines the evidence for land succession in western Victoria and considers the fission, fusion, and extinction of some clan groups at the time of contact with non-Aboriginal people in the late 1830s and 1840s. A special study is made of the intriguing scraps of evidence surrounding Knenknenwurrung. This appears to be the case of a cluster of related clans fragmenting and being absorbed into contiguous language groups¾some into Djadjawurrung, some Jardwadjali, and the majority absorbed into Djabwurrung. Exactly when this fragmentation and fission occurred is unclear, but certainly within the living memory of Aboriginal people in the early 1840s.
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- Description: 2003001796
Methods of community engagement in the development of marine protected areas in Victoria, Australia
- Authors: Hall, Nina , Clark, Ian
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at 2nd Australian Wildlife Tourism Conference, Fremantle, Western Australia : 13th-15th August 2006
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- Description: 2003007118