Talk:Dzamalag

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Importance in Economic History[edit]

Yale anthropologist David Graeber has used dzamalag (along with similar forms of bartering used in other cultures) as part of his argument that barter could not have been a developmental step towards the use of money, as is commonly hypothesized by economists. I am not sure how to incorporate that into the article, but it probably should be incorporated by an editor more versed in economic history than I am.PohranicniStraze (talk) 05:17, 13 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Article title spelling[edit]

The spelling in the title is very strange, it's not as it would be written in current Kunwinjku orthography. Luke Taylor spells it 'Djamalak',^[1] which I would hazard is correct.

Hi Zaddikskysong Yeah, it does look strange, but at a quick look I think there are more hits on this one in Google books than the other spelling... although this may just be a legacy of the Berndts and others who may have spelt it like this? I don't know anything about the language though. Perhaps you could use the contact form on that website and ask for an opinion? (I see there is a Djarmalak festival, but this seems to be relating to Yolngu culture.) Laterthanyouthink (talk) 07:57, 13 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I guess I'll admit now that I'm part of the team working on the online Kunwinjku dictionary... So I'll chat to the main linguist (who runs that site), and a Kunwinjku speaker or two, and see if we can get the word added to the online dictionary. It will take a month or two, but we'll get there! If the spelling corroborates Luke Taylor, I think we should change this article title. If the spelling is different again, then we can cross that bridge when we come to it. Zaddikskysong (talk) 09:36, 13 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good to me! Laterthanyouthink (talk) 10:19, 13 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ "Seeing the Inside". Google Books. Retrieved 13 October 2022.

[1] "Seeing the Inside". Google Books. Retrieved 13 October 2022.

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