| ISBN |
9781743328774 |
| Title |
Jakarda Wuka (too many stories) : narratives of rock art from Yanyuwa Country in northern Australia's Gulf of Carpentaria / li-Yanyuwa li-Wirdiwalangu (Yanyuwa Elders), Liam M. Brady, John Bradley, Amanda Kearney. |
| Publisher and/or associated date/s |
Sydney : Sydney University Press, 2023. |
| ©2023. |
| Description |
317 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.+ 1 map (35 cm. x 50 cm.) ; 1 vocabulary sheet (35 cm. x 50 cm.) |
| Series |
Tom Austen Brown studies in Australasian archaeology |
| Note |
Includes 1 map and 1 vocabulary sheet: Wandayarra a-yabala ki-Yijanndu, na-ja narnu-Yuwa na-alunga li-Yanyuwa = Following the paths of the Dreamings. This is the Law for the Yanyuwa people / illustrated by Brent D McKee & Nona Cameron with John Bradley & Yanyuwa Families. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Tom Austen Brown Studies in Australasian Archaeology -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Glossary -- Foreword -- 1 A story about Saltwater People and their rock art -- 2 A framework to understand Yanyuwa rock art: kinship and relationships -- 3 Creative expressions and rock art in the southwest Gulf of Carpentaria -- 4 Rock art of Wuyaliya clan Country -- 5 Rock art of Wurdaliya clan Country -- 6 Rock art of Rrumburriya clan Country -- 7 Rock art of Mambaliya-Wawukarriya clan Country. |
| Summary |
Jakarda Wuka (Too Many Stories) draws on a combined 70+ years of collaborative research involving Yanyuwa Elders, anthropologists, and an archaeologist to tell a unique story about the rock art from Yanyuwa Country in northern Australia's southwest Gulf of Carpentaria. Australia's rock art is recognised globally for its antiquity, abundance, distinctive motifs and the deep and abiding knowledge Indigenous people continue to hold for these powerful symbols. However, books about Australian rock art jointly written by Indigenous communities, anthropologists, and archaeologists are extremely rare.Combining Yanyuwa and western knowledge, the authors embark on a journey to reveal the true meaning of Yanyuwa rock art. At the heart of this book is the understanding that a painting is not just a painting, nor is it an isolated phenomenon or a static representation. What underpins Yanyuwa perceptions of their rock art is kinship, because people are kin to everything and everywhere on Country.Jakarda Wuka highlights the multidimensional nature of Yanyuwa rock art: it is an active social agent in the landscape, capable of changing according to different circumstances and events, connected to the epic travels and songs of Ancestral Beings (Dreamings), and related to various aspects of Yanyuwa life such as ceremony, health and wellbeing, identity, and narratives concerning past and present-day events.In a time where Indigenous communities, archaeologists, and anthropologists are seeking new ways to work together and better engage with Indigenous knowledges to interpret the "archaeological record", Jakarda Wuka delivers a masterful and profound narrative of Yanyuwa Country and its rock art.This project was supported by the Australian Research Council and the McArthur River Mine Community Benefits Trust. |
| Language |
In Yanyuwa language and English. |
| Subjects |
Yanyuwa (Australian people) |
| Rock paintings -- Northern Territory |
| Art, Aboriginal Australian |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory |
| Yanyuwa language N153 |
| Yanyuwa people N153 |
| Art - Rock art - Painting |
| Art - Art motifs |
| Religion - Dreaming |
| History - Oral history |
| Language - Texts and translations - non-Aboriginal to Aboriginal language |
| Literature and stories |
| Stories and motifs - Creation / Cosmology |
| Gathering |
| Sites - Dreaming tracks |
| Sites - Ceremonial grounds |
| Law - Indigenous |
| Indigenous knowledge |
| Culture - Relationship to place |
| Culture - Relationship to land |
| Ceremonies |
| Social organisation - Kinship |
| Carpentaria, Gulf of, Region (N.T. and Qld.) |
| Carpentaria, Gulf of (N.T. and Qld.) |
| Gulf of Carpentaria (SD53, SD54, SE54) |
| Sir Edward Pellew Islands (NT Gulf Islands SD53-16) |
| Borroloola (North NT SE53-03) |
| Manangoora (North NT SE53-04) |
| Watson Island (NT Gulf Pellew Islands SD53-16) |
| South West Island (NT Gulf Pellew Islands SD53-16) |
| Other Authors &/or Associated Persons |
Brady, Liam M. (author) |
| Bradley, John (author) |
| Kearney, Amanda (author) |
| Other Corporate Bodies |
li-Yanyuwa li-Wirdiwalangu (Yanyuwa Elders) |
| Series |
Tom Austen Brown studies in Australasian archaeology |
| Call number |
2023.157 |
