Peter Toner Peter Toner i(A122123 works by) (a.k.a. Peter Gerald Toner)
Gender: Male
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1 Bakhtin’s Theory of the Utterance and Dhalwangu Manikay Peter Toner , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Strings of Connectedness : Essays in Honour of Ian Keen 2015; (p. 161-186)
1 Introduction : Strings of Connectedness in Ian Keen's Scholarship Peter Toner , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Strings of Connectedness : Essays in Honour of Ian Keen 2015; (p. 1-25)
1 1 y separately published work icon Strings of Connectedness : Essays in Honour of Ian Keen Peter Toner (editor), Acton : Australian National University Press , 2015 9014706 2015 selected work criticism

'For nearly four decades, Ian Keen has been an important, challenging, and engaging presence in Australian anthropology. Beginning with his PhD research in the mid-1970s and through to the present, he has been a leading scholar of Yolngu society and culture, and has made lasting contributions to a range of debates. His scholarly productivity, however, has never been limited to the Yolngu, and he has conducted research and published widely on many other facets of Australian Aboriginal society: on Aboriginal culture in ‘settled’ Australia; comparative historical work on Aboriginal societies at the threshold of colonisation; a continuing interest in kinship; ongoing writing on language and society; and a set of significant land claims across the continent. In this volume of essays in his honour, a group of Keen’s former students and current colleagues celebrate the diversity of his scholarly interests and his inspiring influence as a mentor and a friend, with contributions ranging across language structure, meaning, and use; the post-colonial engagement of Aboriginal Australians with the ideas and structures of ‘mainstream’ society; ambiguity and indeterminacy in Aboriginal symbolic systems and ritual practices; and many other interconnected themes, each of which represents a string that he has woven into the rich tapestry of his scholarly work.' (Source: Publishers website)

1 Sing a Country of the Mind : The Articulation of Place in Dhalwangu Song Peter Toner , 2007 selected work criticism
— Appears in: The Soundscapes of Australia : Music, Place and Spirituality 2007; (p. 166-184)
1 [Review Essay] People of the Rivermouth : The Joborr Texts of Frank Gurrmanamana Peter Toner , 2002 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 2 2002; (p. 91-93)

'Every once in a while, a scholarly work comes along which, by its very innovation, resists comparison with existing works in the same field. People of the Rivermouth is, I consider, such a work. Taking as its foundation a series of texts developed by Anbarra elder Frank Gurrmanamana (itself an innovative and important enough move), People of the Rivermouth is an interactive, multimedia project which combines those texts with historical and ethnographic material on the Anbarra, and biographical material on the unique relationship between Gurrmanamana and his anthropological collaborator, Les Hiatt. The texts become both a metaphorical and an actual narrative thread which ties together the project’s many and varied elements.'  (Introduction)

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