Warlpiri songlines: anthropological, linguistic and Indigenous perspectives [ 2005-01-01 - 2009-03-31 ]

Research Grant

Researchers: Dr Mary Laughren (Chief Investigator) ,  Dr Nicolas Peterson (Chief Investigator) ,  Dr Stephen Wild (Chief Investigator) ,  Miss Anna Meltzer (Partner Investigator) ,  The Australian National University (Managed by)

Brief description Warlpiri songlines: anthropological, linguistic and Indigenous perspectives. This partnership combines anthropologists, linguists, Indigenous knowledge holders and Indigenous bicultural linguists to record, document and analyse Warlpiri song series. Warlpiri songs link ancestral power, landscape, emotions and aesthetics and are central to religious life. Because the diversity of performance contexts in which these songs are learnt is rapidly reducing, this aspect of Warlpiri high culture is under threat. This project will create a cultural archive informed by Indigenous exegesis, that integrates it into the world of anthropological and lingusitic scholarship and provides materials for the school curriculum.

Funding Amount $167,000

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