Research Publications and Outputs: Recent submissions
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Sustaining Indigenous Songs
Published 2020As an ethnography of Central Australian singing traditions and ceremonial contexts, this book asks questions about the vitality of the cultural knowledge and practices highly valued by Warlpiri people and fundamental to ...Book -
Representations of Indigenous cultural property in collaborative publishing projects: the Warlpiri women’s yawulyu songbooks
Published 2018This paper explores issues around the representation of Indigenous cultural property, voices and images in two books of Warlpiri women's yawulyu song traditions that form part of a series published by Batchelor Press ...Article -
On the poetic imagery of smoke in Warlpiri songs
Published 2018Smoke, an ever-present source of comfort in day-to-day Warlpiri lives, is also a powerful ritual symbol and theme in the poetic language of Warlpiri songs. Rather than signalling these soothing qualities, in this more ...Article -
Yurntumu-wardingki juju-ngaliya-kurlangu yawulyu: Warlpiri women's songs from Yuendumu
Published 2017Yawulyu have been passed down through many generations of Warlpiri women. In this book, the juju-ngaliya 'ritual experts' from Yuendumu present four yawulyu song series which follow the journeys of a number of ancestral ...Book