Ngan'gimerri
The Ngan'gimerri, also spelt Nangiomeri, Nanggumiri,
Language
Ngan'gimerri is one of the Southern Daly River languages, and considered a dialect of the Ngan'gi language.[2]
Country
Their traditional grounds lie to the east of those of the
Post-contact history
Securing food for Aboriginal nomads was always a dicey business, and the attraction of areas where Europeans settled, as places where, through kinship with
According to Johannes Falkenberg, one horde of the tribe, known as the Ngargaminjin, assimilated with the Murrinh-Partha after the coming of white colonisation.[1]
Society and kinship
The Ngan'gimerri and their allies the
Mythology
The
Durmugan
The Australian anthropologist
Stanner's long memoir of Durmugan soon became famous, with its insightful tale of the relationship between an Aboriginal informant and his anthropologist interpreter. Robert Manne has called it "the finest essay by an Australian" he had ever come across.[10][11]
His name indicated a Murrinh-Patha connection, being a variant on a place-name, Dirmugam, in the latter Nangor clan's territory. His only equal, and, in dance, superior was a Murrinh-Patha warrior and trickster called Tjimari, whose story was given lustre after he made friends with the Australian poet Roland Robinson.[12]
Alternative names
- Nanggiomeri, Nangiomeri, Nangumiri
- Nangimera, Nangimeri
- Nanggiwumiri, Nangi-wumiri
- Ngen-gomeri
- Mariwumiri
- Murinwumiri
- Wumiri[1]
- Nanggikorongo[13]
Notes
Citations
- ^ a b c d Tindale 1974, p. 232.
- ^ Grimes 2003, p. 416.
- ^ Stanner 2011, p. 21.
- ^ Stanner 2011, p. 31.
- ^ Stanner 2011, p. 22.
- ^ Stanner 2011, p. 33.
- ^ Maddock 1978, p. 6.
- ^ Stanner 2011, pp. 19–56, 21.
- ^ Stanner 2011, p. 34.
- ^ Manne 2011, p. 4.
- ^ Hinkson 2010, p. 81.
- ^ Stanner 2011, pp. 23–24.
- ^ N8 Ngan'gikurunggurr at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Sources
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- Green, Ian (September 1989). Marrithiyel, a language of the Daly River region of Australia's Northern Territory (PDF). ANU PhD.
- Grimes, Barbara (2003). "Daly River Languages". In Frawley, William (ed.). International Encyclopedia of Linguistics: AAVE-Esperanto. Vol. 1. ISBN 978-0-195-13977-8.
- Hinkson, Melinda (2010). "Thinking with Stanner in the present". Humanities Research. 16 (2): 75–92.
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