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Title:		Reflections on the preparation and delivery of Carl Strehlow's heritage dictionary (1909) to the Western Aranda people
Bibliographic Citation:		Anna Kenny; 2019-10; Kaipuleohone University of Hawai'i Digital Language Archive;http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24877.
Creator:		Anna Kenny
Date (W3CDTF):		2019-10
Description:		This chapter reflects on the predicaments encountered while bringing ethnographic and linguistic archival materials, and in particular an Aranda, German, Loritja [Luritja], and Dieri dictionary manuscript compiled by Carl Strehlow and with more than 7,600 entries, into the public domain. This manuscript, as well as other unique documents held at the Strehlow Research Centre in Alice Springs and elsewhere in Australia, is surrounded by competing views about ownership and control. In this case study I discuss my research and work with Western Aranda people concerning the transcription and translation into English of the dictionary manuscript. I also discuss the immense difficulties I faced in seeing the dictionary through to final publication. I encountered vested interests in this ethno-linguistic treasure that I had not been aware of and ownership claims that I had not taken into account. They arose from diverse quarters – from academia, from individuals in the Lutheran church, from Indigenous organisations, and from the Northern Territory Government. One such intervention almost derailed the dictionary work by actions that forced the suspension of the project for over 12 months. In this chapter I track the complex history of this manuscript, canvas the views of various stakeholders, and detail interpretations and reactions of Aranda people to the issues involved.
Identifier:		Kenny, Anna. "Reflections on the preparation and delivery of Carl Strehlow’s heritage dictionary (1909) to the Western Aranda people." In Archival Returns: Central Australia and Beyond, edited by Linda Barwick, Jennifer Green, and Petronella Vaarzon-Morel, 47–63. LD&C Special Publication 18. Honolulu & Sydney: University of Hawai’i Press & Sydney University Press, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24877/.
		978-0-9973295-7-5
Identifier (URI):		http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24877
Publisher:		University of Hawai'i Press
Relation:		LD&C Special Publication 18
Subject:		Aranda
		Loritja (Luritja)
		Dieri
		Strehlow
		dictionary
Table Of Contents:		LDC_SP18 ARCHIVAL RETURNS_Chapter3.pdf
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Citation:		Anna Kenny. 2019. University of Hawai'i Press.