Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP140102983

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP140102983

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The Long-term Dynamics of Higher Order social Organisation in Aboriginal Australia. The two principal aims of the project are to show: that the Holocene prehistory of Australia was dynamic, involving significant expansion and migration of language groups; and, that in such expansion, migration, and resistance to them, higher-order social groupings were formed: the ‘nations’ reported by earlier anthropology and the ‘cultural blocs’ of recent anthropology. Evidence will come from comparative linguistics, anthropology, and the role of geography in the distribution of social groupings, principally in subtropical Eastern Australia but also in the Victoria River district and Tanami Desert, Northern Territory. This project challenges the dominant view of static Indigenous Australia pre-colonially, and will benefit Native Title anthropology.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2014

End Date: 31-12-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $146,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Social and Cultural Anthropology | Anthropology | Language in Time and Space (incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology) |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Understanding Australia's Past | Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture

Other Keywords

Anthropology | Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture | Language in Time and Space (incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology) | Social and Cultural Anthropology | Understanding Australia's Past

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