Djinba people
The Djinba are an indigenous Australian Yolngu people of the Northern Territory.
Name
Their endonym Djinba comes from their word for the demonstrative pronoun 'this'.[1] The two moieties are (a) Ganalbingu (Ganhalpuyngu) and (b) Mandjalpingu (Manydjalpuyngu).[2]
Language
Djinba is one of the Yolŋu languages, and its closest relationship is to Djinang with which it is about 60% cognate.[3]
Country
The Djinba were inlanders whose territory has been estimated to extend over some 1,200 square miles (3,100 km2), running south from the Arafura Swamp's northern margin to the upper Goyder River.[1] The Djinang lie to their north-west, the Rembarrnga directly west, while to their south were the Ngandi and Diakui people (Ritharrngu) tribes.
Social organisation
Norman Tindale claimed that the Djinba were the most northerly tribe in eastern Arnhem Land to retain the standard Australian tribal structure, meaning they were divided into Dua and Jiritja clans.[1]
Alternative names
- Jinba.
- Outjanbah.[1]
Notes
Citations
- Tindale 1974, p. 224.
- Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press. p. xxxvi.
- Waters 1989, p. xiv.
Sources
- Keen, Ian (August 1995). "Metaphor and the Metalanguage: "Groups" in Northeast Arnhem Land". American Ethnologist. 22 (3): 502–527. doi:10.1525/ae.1995.22.3.02a00030. JSTOR 645969.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Thomson, Donald F. (August 1939). "The Tree Dwellers of the Arafura Swamps: A New Type of Bark Canoe from CentralArnhem Land". Man. 39: 121–126. JSTOR 2793391.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Djinba (NT)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Warner, William Lloyd (April 1930). "Morphology and Functions of the Australian Murngin Type of Kinship". American Anthropologist. 32 (2): 207–256. doi:10.1525/aa.1930.32.2.02a00010. JSTOR 661305.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Warner, William Lloyd (April–June 1931). "Morphology and Functions of the Australian Murngin Type of Kinship (Part II)". American Anthropologist. 33 (2): 172–198. doi:10.1525/aa.1931.33.2.02a00030. JSTOR 660835.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Waters, Bruce E. (1989). Djinang and Djinba - A Grammatical and Historical Perspective (PDF). Research School of Pacific Studies. ISBN 085883 392 1.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)