Linguistic Imagery in Warlpiri Songs: Some Examples of Metaphors, Metonymy and Image-schemata in<i>Minamina Yawulyu</i>

Curran, Georgia

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“…Aspects of country that have redness are transient: the shiny skins of ripe quandong; ripe figs that, I was told, ‘clean’ a person's upset stomach; fresh bright seeds from the red bean tree which turn brown as they dry out (Hamby & Young 2001); and the sky and certain rocks at dusk or daybreak. There are more constant reds in the attributes of animals who were formed during the Tjukurpa : the patches of red feathers in certain birds such as the crimson chat (Curran 2010: 109‐10) and the zebra finch, as well as some small lizards. There is fresh vein blood and correspondingly bright red sap in some trees; red materials and substances that are not ‘dry’ are valued.…”

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In the red: substances and materials in the Australian Western Desert

Young

2020

Royal Anthropological Inst

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This article discusses the diversity, distribution, and qualities of materials and substances categorized as red among Pitjantjatjara-and Yankunytjatjara-speaking Western Desert Aboriginal people: Anangu. Valued red materials and substances include elements of the encultured landscape -country -such as ochre, timber, food, blood, and fire, alongside cloth and other industrially produced materials. Previous scholarship defines reds among central Australian Aboriginal cultures only in static symbolic terms as representing blood. Based on long-term fieldwork, this article discusses how Anangu employ a system of analogy across domains which connects together red materials and substances with particular affordances. I argue that Anangu conceptualize these red materials and substances as making visible kurunpa/spirit. This has implications for concepts of health and for constructing the local cultural value of consumer goods and substances found in country. Reds connect the mental and the material. The article contributes to studies of how contemporary Anangu mediate relationships between kin and country and participate in a wider market economy. It addresses anthropological knowledge about, and the importance of, the materiality of colours and the role of coloured materials and substances in shaping local ontologies and epistemologies.

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“…88It is worth noting that the Ancestral Kungkarangkalpa/Seven Sisters who cross the APY region turn into red river gums at a particular site to avoid their amorous pursuer, Nyiru (Neale 2017: 108‐9), and that Georgia Curran, working with Warlpiri women on song, reports that red river gums refer to women who are ‘too fat to dance’ (2010: 110).…”

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In the red: substances and materials in the Australian Western Desert

Young

2020

Royal Anthropological Inst

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“…1 Most of this research has focused on either the meanings of the texts (e.g. Curran 2010aCurran , 2010bRockman & Cataldi 1994), their social context (e.g. Dussart 2000;Wild 1984Wild , 1987, the music (Shannon 1971), dance (Dail-Jones 1984, 1992, 1998 or visual aspects (Munn 1973).…”

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Edge Effects in WarlpiriYawulyuSongs: Resyllabification, Epenthesis, Final Vowel Modification

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Laughren

2013

Australian Journal of Linguistics

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Song genres vary as to which aspects of language and music are matched to create a well-formed song. For example, English folk songs match stressed syllables to strong musical beats. Some song styles have no requirements on how language and music should align. This article analyses how text and music align in Warlpiri women's songs from central Australia and finds there are 'text-setting' rules for setting text to musical rhythm. We first identify the formal units of the text and music and then account for their combination by two matching rules. In Warlpiri, text-setting involves matching each syllable to one metrical (rhythmic) position and aligning phonological phrase edges with bar edges. Linguistic units smaller than the phrase, such as those in reduplications and other polymorphemic words, require no such alignment. Alignment is often met through lengthening the right edge of a phrase, which often results in a distortion of the patterns of syllabic prominence in speech. Preferred structures for both text and music can lead to variations of a song based on a reordering of these preferences. This can be exploited to restructure songs when words must be avoided for social reasons.

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On the Poetic Imagery of Smoke in Warlpiri Songs

Curran

2018

Anthropological Forum

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Linguistic Imagery in Warlpiri Songs: Some Examples of Metaphors, Metonymy and Image-schemata inMinamina Yawulyu

Cited by 4 publications

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In the red: substances and materials in the Australian Western Desert

In the red: substances and materials in the Australian Western Desert

Edge Effects in WarlpiriYawulyuSongs: Resyllabification, Epenthesis, Final Vowel Modification

On the Poetic Imagery of Smoke in Warlpiri Songs

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