Wik: Aboriginal society, territory and language at Cape Keerweer, Cape York Peninsula, Australia

Sutton, Peter

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Wik: Aboriginal society, territory and language at Cape Keerweer, Cape York Peninsula, Australia

Date

1978

Authors

Sutton, Peter

Publisher

University of Queensland

Abstract

This thesis is essentially ethnographic in the sense that it is a description of the sociolinguistic character of a particular human population in a remote part of northern Australia, rather than a theoretical investigation drawing widely on other substantive studies.