PARADISEC (Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures): Recent submissions
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Searching for meaning in the Library of Babel: field semantics and problems of digital archiving
Published 2004-01-01Languages are made up of linguistic signs, each of which is a conventional pairing of a form and a meaning. In spoken languages, the form is sound; in signed languages, it is a visual sign. A central task in documenting ...Open AccessConference paper -
’Now Balanda Say We Lost Our Land in 1788’: Challenges to the Recognition of Yolŋu Law in Contemporary Australia
Published 2004-01-01This essay examines some of the cultural underpinnings of contemporary Yolŋu calls for the comprehensive recognition of their full political rights and legal jurisdiction over northeast Arnhem Land by Australian governments. ...Open AccessConference paper -
Digital encounters with Pacific Island Radio and Television Archives
Published 2004-01-01Although the Archive of Maori and Pacific Music is located within the University of Auckland and is used by staff and students, the last decade has seen a steady increase in the proportion of non-university users to the ...Open AccessConference paper -
Sound recordings as maruy among the Aborigines of the Daly region of north west Australia
Published 2004-01-01This paper reflects on a set of anxieties concerning the relationship between living traditions of song and dance and the body of audio recordings of these traditions that have been generated in the course of my research. ...Open AccessConference paper -
The politics of context: issues for law, researchers and the creation of databases
Published 2004-01-01Field recordings pose many dilemmas for intellectual property law, researchers, and the creation of databases containing Indigenous knowledge. Challenges arise because these field recordings in tangible form undergo constant ...Open AccessConference paper