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Western Maps/Yanyuwa Meaning: an Interview with John Bradley

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

Frances Devlin-Glass  and
John Bradley
Frances Devlin-Glass
Affiliation:
School of Communication and Creative Arts, Faculty of Arts, Deakin University, Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria, 3125, Australia
John Bradley
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology and Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3800, Australia
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Abstract

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.

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Research Article
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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 35 , 2006 , pp. 90 - 101
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006

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