2020
DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2020.1851170
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Rations: Flour, sugar, tea and tobacco in Australian languages

Abstract: This paper is a lexical study of rationsflour, sugar, tea and tobaccoin Australian languages. The distribution of food played an important role in relations between Aboriginal people and colonisers: this study complements existing historical and ethnographic work on the topic by investigating the lexicon of rations in a set of 197 languages across Australia. We discern a number of patterns. There are relatively few extensions of terms for traditional equivalents in the case of 'flour', 'sugar' and 'tea', for a… Show more

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