Work

The Two Rainbow Serpents Travelling: Mura track narratives from the ‘Corner Country’

Year: 2009
Type: book
Abstract: The ‘Corner Country’, where Queensland, South Australia and New South Wales now converge, was in Aboriginal tradition crisscrossed by the tracks of the mura, ancestral beings, who named the country as they travelled, linking place to language. Reproduced here is the story of the two Ngatyi, Rainbow Serpents, who travelled from the Paroo to the Flinders Ranges and back as far
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1789309463
FWCI: 0.464
Cites: 17
Cited by: 93
Related to: 10