Dr Petter Naessan

  • Research Interests

    Indigenous Australian languages, TEK (Traditional Ecological Knowledge) documentation, linguistic vitality and language endangerment, language and culture, language ecology (ethnographic ecology)

  • Publications

    (A small list of selected publications)

    - ‘A preliminary outline of Antikirrinya bird classification: a comparative approach’, Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, Vol. 9, No. 3 (July 2017), pp. 344-367.

    Ingkama Bobby Brown, Catherine Amis & Petter Naessan, 2013. Yankunytjarra Antikirrinya Calendar 2014. Artwork and stories by Ingkama Bobby Brown. Adelaide: University of Adelaide.

    Ingkama Bobby Brown & Petter Naessan 2012: Irrititja - the past: Antikirrinya history from Ingomar Station and beyond. Southport, QLD: Keeaira Press.

    - ‘The etymology of Coober Pedy, South Australia’, Aboriginal History, Vol. 34 (December 2010), pp. 217-233.

    - Some tentative remarks on the sociolinguistic vitality of Yankunytjatjara in Coober Pedy, South Australia’, Australian Journal of Linguistics, Vol. 28, No 2, pp. 103-138, October 2008.

     - Problems in the study of contact-induced extensive linguistic shift', International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 182 (Singles Issue), pp. 135-145, November 2006.

    - ‘Review of Harry G. Frankfurt: On bullshit’. Philosophy Now, Issue 53, November-December 2005.

    - ‘Yankunytjatjara cultural transmission, ceremonial discontinuity and continuity’. Glen Pass & Denise Woods (eds), 2004. Alchemies – Community ExChanges. Undisciplined thoughts, vol. 4, pp. 339-355. Perth: Black Swan Press.

          

       

           

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Entry last updated: Sunday, 20 Feb 2022