- Title
- Spurious etymologies : Toponymic books and town name identities on the Murray river
- Creator
- Kostanski, Laura
- Date
- 2005
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/61487
- Identifier
- vital:492
- Identifier
- ISSN:1030-7710
- Abstract
- This paper identifies the historical-cultural processes represented by the published etymologies of the town names of the Murray River. In particular, it will focus on Victorian and Australian toponymic reference books, and the effects they have had on the representations of local Murray River town histories. There will also be some discussion on how, instead of being limited to mere reference material for tourists, toponymic books have been used by local historians as sources for determining the history of their place names. Moreover, consideration will be given to specific cases where spurious etymologies published in toponymic books in the early part of the twentieth century, have been republished in later toponymic reference books, and eventually adopted as part of local town histories. This process will be discussed in line with Geoffrey Blainey’s critique of ‘scissors and paste in local history’.; C1
- Publisher
- Melbourne Royal Historical Society of Victoria
- Relation
- Victorian Historical Journal Vol. 76, no. 2 (2005), p. 211-224
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- Copyright Royal Historical Society of Victoria
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 2103 Historical Studies; Toponymic; Murray River; Place names; Towns
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