@inbook{02c9a4d48f29498782b75ad813873063,
title = "Names that Make the World",
abstract = "The chapter focuses on Djambawa Marawili's painting of the journey of B{\"a}ru, the Ancestral Crocodile across the land and seascape of Yol{\ng}u country in north east Arnhem Land. Place names form a mnemonic grid which is the basis for a generative system of knowledge, simultaneously marking the relationships between the people who are named after the places. As a coherent system, its mnemonic power and effectiveness rest primarily in the strength of connections between places that are tied together through narrative and song. The names remain in place as a recursive reference point, as something permanent, unmoving in time or space.",
author = "Frances Morphy and Djambawa Marawili and Howard Morphy and Bree Blakeman and Minitja Marawili",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2026 selection and editorial matter, Gwyneira Isaac, Stanis{\l}aw Kordasiewicz, Sylvia Ngo, Tomasz Wicherkiewicz and Kyunney Takasaeva; individual chapters, the contributors.",
year = "2026",
doi = "10.4324/9781032629407-21",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781032557076",
series = "Anthropological Studies in Creativity and Perception",
publisher = "Routledge",
pages = "153--164",
editor = "Gwyneira Isaac and Stanis{\l}aw Kordasiewicz and Sylvia Ngo and Tomasz Wicherkiewicz and Kyunney Takasaeva",
booktitle = "Naming and Being",
address = "United Kingdom",
}