Subsections at Borroloola1

My Country, Mine Country: Indigenous people, mining and development contestation in remote Australia (CAEPR Monograph 33)

“…Waanyi, Gangalidda, Lardil and Kaiadilt share a kinship system based on an Arandic system which features eight subsection classes and four semi-moiety classes (McKnight 1999;Memmott and Trigger 1998;Reay 1962;Trigger 1982). According to Trigger whilst Waanyi people predominantly use subsection terms, the use of semi-moiety terms has been adopted as a consequence of interaction with neighbouring Garrawa people, whose country is predominantly in the Northern Territory in the northern part of the Nicholson River Land Trust (Trigger 1982: 8).…”

Semi-Moiety Organization: Some Moot Points in the Literature

“…Semi-moiety organization, as defined in Section I above, can be generated in a number of ways-by cultural recognition of father-son couples of subsections in an Aranda-type kinship-marriage system, by a quadripartite classification of sibs (either directly or as a result of certain principles in the application of kinship terms), and in the more direct form of irreducible, self-sufficient unilineal descent groups, as in certain societies in southeastern Arnhem Land (Reay, 1962).~ It seems most often to occur in association with kinship terminologies of the Aranda type, but it can and does also occur with certain kinds of ' asymmetric' terminologies, as in northeast Arnhem Land and, I believe, among the Yir-Yoront (cf. Shapiro, n.d.).…”

The politics of indigeneity, identity and representation in literature from north Australia's Gulf Country

“…Ethnographic research has documented how each possesses oral stories of spiritual (or totemic) entities inhering in the landscape (Kirton & Timothy, 1977;McKnight, 1999;Memmott & Trigger, 1998;Reay, 1962;Sharp, 1935Sharp, , 1939Trigger, 1982Trigger, , 1987Trigger, , 1992, as well as historical accounts of the impacts of colonialism. As a Ganggalida Aboriginal man, aged in his 60s, stated in July 2010 when discussing the diversity of identities in his town of Doomadgee ( Figure 1) in an interview conducted for our research:…”