Western Maps/Yanyuwa Meaning: an Interview with John Bradley

Frances Devlin-Glass; John Bradley

doi:10.1017/S1326011100004208

Western Maps/Yanyuwa Meaning: an Interview with John Bradley

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Frances Devlin-Glass School of Communication and Creative Arts
John Bradley School of Political and Social Inquiry

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https://doi.org/10.1017/S1326011100004208

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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Bradley J. & Tamisari F. (in press). Place and event. In Minelli A., Ortalli G., Sanga G. (Eds.), Animal names. Venice: Instituto Veneto Di Scienze Lettere Ed Arti, Plazzo Loredan,Campo Santo Stefano.

Devlin-Glass F. ( 2005). An atlas of the sacred: Hybridity, representability and the myths of Yanyuwa country. Antipodes: A North American Journal of Australian Literature, 19( 2), 127– 140.

Strehlow T.G.H ( 1971). Songs of Central Australia. Sydney: Angus and Robertson.

Yanyuwa Families , Bradley J. & Cameron N. ( 2003). Forge about Flinders: A Yanyuwa atlas of the south west gulf of Carpentaria. Brisbane: Yanyuwa Families, John Bradley and Nona Cameron.

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2006-12-01

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Devlin-Glass, F., & Bradley, J. (2006). Western Maps/Yanyuwa Meaning: an Interview with John Bradley. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 35(1), 90–101. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1326011100004208

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Vol. 35 No. 1 (2006)

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