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Aboriginal Australian people of Central Australia

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::summary Aboriginal Australian people of Central Australia ::

The Anmatyerr (also spelt Anmatyerre, Anmatjera, Anmatjirra, Amatjere and other variations) are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory, who speak one of the Upper Arrernte languages.

Language

Main article: Anmatyerr language

Anmatyerr is divided into Eastern and Western dialects, both dialects of Upper Arrernte. The linguist Jennifer Green has been key to documenting the Anmatyerr language and the anthropologist Jason M. Gibson has written about Anmatyerr history, language and ceremonial practice.

Country

In 1974 the traditional lands of the Anmatyerr people in N.B. Tindale's Aboriginal Tribes of Australia were described as covering an area of 11,200 sqmi. He specifies its central features as encompassing the Forster Range, Mount Leichhardt (Arnka), Coniston, Stuart Bluff Range to the east of West Bluff; the Hann and Reynolds Ranges (Arwerlt Atwaty); the Burt Plain north of Rembrandt Rocks and Connor Well. Their eastern frontier went as far as Woodgreen. To the northeast, their borders lay around central Mount Stuart (Amakweng) and Harper Springs.

Communities

Anmatyerr communities located within the region include Nturiya (Old Ti Tree Station), Ti-Tree Pmara Jutunta (6 Mile), Willowra, Laramba (Napperby Station) and Alyuen. What is today known as the Anmatyerr region has overlap with Warlpiri, Arrernte and Alyawarr language communities. Many people come from two or three different language groups. The Utopia community, 250 km northeast of Alice Springs, and set up in 1927, is partly on Alyawarr land, partly on land of the Anmatyerr. As a specialist in Arandic culture and language T. G. H Strehlow also worked with Anmatyerr people throughout his career, recording much of their ceremonial traditions.

Alternative names

  • Anmatjara
  • Imatjera
  • Janmadjara/Janmadjari (Warlpiri exonym)
  • Janmatjiri (Pintupi exonym)
  • Nmatjera
  • Unmatjera (mainly an Aranda exonym)
  • Urmitchee
  • Yanmedjara, Yanmadjari

Notable people

Notes

Citations

Sources

  • {{cite book| chapter = Chapter 4: The wonders of Arandic phonology | last = Breen | first = Gavan | year = 2001 | title = Forty years on: Ken Hale and Australian languages | editor1-last = Simpson | editor1-first = Jane | editor2-last = Nash | editor2-first = David | editor3-last = Laughren | editor3-first = Mary | editor4-last = Austin | editor4-first = Peter | editor5-last = Alpher | editor5-first = Barry | publisher = ANU. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. (Pacific Linguistics) | series = Pacific Linguistics 512 | url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/43456489 | format = pdf | via = ResearchGate | pages = 45–69 | isbn = 085883524-X
  • {{cite book| title = Ceremony Men | last = Gibson | first = Jason M. | year = 2020 | publisher = SUNY Press | url = https://www.sunypress.edu/p-6880-ceremony-men.aspx | isbn = 978-143847855-5
  • {{Cite journal | title = Notes on the Malngjin and Gurindgi aborigines of Limbunya, Northern Territory | last = Meggitt | first = M. J. | author-link = Mervyn Meggitt | journal = Mankind | date = September 1955 | volume = 5 | issue = 2 | pages = 45–50 | doi = 10.1111/j.1835-9310.1955.tb01418.x
  • {{Cite journal | title = The Bindibu and Others | last = Meggitt | first = M. J. | author-link = Mervyn Meggitt | journal = Man | date = August 1961 | volume = 61 | page = 143 | jstor = 2796739
  • {{Cite journal | title = Marriage and descent in North Australia | last = Radcliffe-Brown | first = Alfred | author-link = Alfred Radcliffe-Brown | journal = Science of Man | location = Sydney | year = 1911 | volume = 13–14 | issue = 3–4 | pages = 63–64, 81–82
  • {{Cite book| title = Northern Tribes of Central Australia | last1 = Spencer | first1 = Sir Baldwin | last2 = Gillen | first2 = Francis J. | author1-link = Walter Baldwin Spencer | author2-link = Francis James Gillen | year = 1904 | publisher = Macmillan Publishers | url = https://archive.org/details/northerntribesc00gillgoog | format = PDF | via = Internet Archive
  • {{Cite book| title = Aranda traditions | last = Strehlow | first = T. G. H. | year = 1947 | author-link = Ted Strehlow | publisher = Melbourne University Press
  • {{Cite book| chapter = Culture, social structure, and environment | last = Strehlow | first = T. G. H. | year = 1965 | author-link = Ted Strehlow | title = Aboriginal Man in Australia | editor1-last = Berndt | editor1-first = R. M. | editor1-link = Ronald Berndt | editor2-last = Berndt | editor2-first = C. H. | editor2-link = Catherine Berndt | publisher = Angus & Robertson | pages = 121–145
  • {{Cite book| chapter = Anmatjera (NT) | last = Tindale | first = Norman Barnett | year = 1974 | author-link = Norman Tindale | title = Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names | publisher = Australian National University Press | chapter-url = http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindale/HDMS/tindaletribes/anmatjera.htm | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20050908092419/http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindale/HDMS/tindaletribes/anmatjera.htm | archive-date = 8 September 2005 | isbn = 978-0-708-10741-6

References

  1. {{AIATSIS. C8.1. Anmatyerr
  2. "Anmatyerre".
  3. [https://geographic.org/geographic_names/name.php?uni=-2243918&fid=412&c=australia Mount Leichhardt]

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