Issue 1

Editorial

1

Articles

Aboriginal place names
Dorothy Tunbridge

2

Kriol in the Barkly Tableland
Philip Graber

14

The structure of Gooniyandi narratives
William McGregor

20

Australian Aboriginal and Islander Mathematics
John Harris

29

The distribution of Aboriginal watercraft on the east coast of Queensland: Implications for culture contact
Michael Rowland

38

Commerce in the bush: Aboriginal and Inuit experiences in the commercial world
Elspeth Young

46

Research Reports

The philosophy and politics of Aboriginal language maintenance
Steve Johnson

54

The Kayardild dictionary project
Nicholas Evans

58

Information processing and mathematical knowledge in Aboriginal Australian children in Southeast Queensland
Gillian Boulton-Lewis, Hope Neill and Graeme Halford

63

Teacher education for the Torres Strait
Noel Loos

66

Kriol and Literacy
Marie Marett

69

Ngarinyin cultural continuity: a project to teach the young people the culture including the re-painting of Wandjina rock art sites
David Mowaljarlai and Cyril Peck

71

News and information

79

Resources

90

Book Reviews

93

Issue 2

Editorial

1

Articles

Borning
Betty Carter, Eileen Hussen, Lana Abbott, Margaret Liddle, Mary Wighton, Maureen McCormack, Pip Duncan and Pamela Nathan

2

Health status: Australian Aborigines and Native Americans—a comparison
Regina Kenen

34

Lifestyle change and nutritional status in Kimberley Aborigines
Kerin O’Dea, Joan Naughton, Andrew Sinclair, Lucy Rabucoand Richard Smith

46

Research Communications

Changing Aboriginal health profiles in north east Arnhem Land: Immune status in the transition from hunting and gathering, to urbanisation
Graham Flannery

52

Growing up in the Kimberley: a study of nutrition, growth and health in Aboriginal infants in the far north of Western Australia
Michael Gracey and Helen Sullivan

57

Digestion and absorption of carbohydrate in Australian Aboriginal, Pacific Island and Western foods
Ann Thorburn and Janette Brand

61

Health care in the Torres Strait
Ellie Gaffney

64

Biographical-ecological maps
Deborah Bird Rose

65

Engraved human figures and faces from Wardaman country, eastern Victoria River District, Northern Territory
Darrell Lewis and Brent McCausland

67

Comment

80

News and information

86

Obituaries

97

• Helmut Petrie
• Arthur Capell

Past Time

100

Resources

110

Book Reviews

112