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Author Dixon, Robert M. W., 1939-

Title Searching for Aboriginal languages : memoirs of a field worker / Bob Dixon
Published St. Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, [1983]

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Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 W'PONDS  499.150924 Dix  AVAILABLE
Description 330 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : maps, portraits (1 color) ; 23 cm
Summary Experiences in northeast Queensland 1963-77; introduces informants, particularly Chloe Grant and George Watson, how they lived, the languages and legends
Notes Maps on lining papers
Event 1983
Notes Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection
Subject Dixon, Robert M. W., 1939-
Dyirbal / Jirrbal people Y123
Gulngay language Y126
Mbabaram people Y115
Nywaigi language Y129
Warrgamay language Y134
Warrgamay people Y134
Yidindji people Y117
Yidinj language Y117
Girramay language Y127
Girramay people Y127
Dharug / Darug language S64
Aboriginal Australians -- Languages.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland -- Languages.
Australian languages -- Australia -- Queensland.
Linguistics -- Fieldwork -- Australia -- Queensland.
Linguistics -- Australia -- Queensland.
Linguists -- Australia -- Biography.
Linguists -- Australia -- Queensland.
LC no. 83005919
ISBN 0702217131
0702219339 (paperback)