Talk:Dzamalag

Importance in Economic History

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)

Article title spelling

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', 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)

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)

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

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