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Alcheringa is a word in the Indigenous Australian Aranda language used to refer to the Dreamtime, also known as Alchera.
It can also mean:
- Alcheringa (journal), an Australian palaeontology journal
- Alcheringa (magazine), a magazine of ethnopoetics published from 1970–1980
- Alcheringa, an annual cultural festival held once a year at the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India
- Alcheringa Gallery, a Canadian gallery of contemporary aboriginal art
Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology is the official journal of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists. The journal is international in scope and publishes articles on all aspects of palaeontology and its ramifications into the earth and biological sciences, including: taxonomy, biostratigraphy, micropalaeontology, vertebrate palaeontology, palaeobotany, palynology, palaeobiology, palaeoanatomy, palaeoecology, biostratinomy, biogeography, chronobiology, biogeochemistry and palichnology. The journal was established in 1975 and is currently published as four issues per year. Alcheringa is derived from the Arrernte language of the Arrernte aboriginal people of the Alice Springs area of central Australia. Alcheringa (also spelt altjeringa) is the popularized English version of an Arunta expression that means 'in the beginning' or 'from all eternity'. Alcheringa is also the name given to a 2.7-2.8 billion year old stromatolite from the Pilbara region of Western Australia, and symbolizes the antiquity of life and its record in sedimentary rocks. An image of the stromatolite is illustrated on the cover of the journal.
Alcheringa (the aboriginal word for Dreamtime) was a magazine of ethnopoetics published between 1970 and 1980 It was edited by Dennis Tedlock and by Jerome Rothenberg (until 1976), proponents of the ethnopoetics movement. The magazine was published by Boston University.
In Alcheringa, poetry of various indigenous tribes was published and translated in English, but it also published American poets like Anne Waldman, Gary Snyder, Armand Schwerner, Robert Kelly, Jerome Rothenberg himself or David Antin. Ron Silliman published an early anthology of Language poetry.
Alcheringa, popularly known as "Alcher", is the annual cultural festival of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati. Started in 1996 by a group of students of IIT Guwahati, Alcheringa has quickly established itself as one of the biggest college level cultural events in Asia. Spread over 3 days and 4 nights, Alcheringa is conducted towards the end of January every year. With its spectacular events and competitions, Alcheringa attracts people from all over the world. The twentieth edition held from 28th to the 31st January, witnessed more than 70 events. Students from about 400 colleges from all over the country participated and a footfall of more than 70,000 people was estimated.
The four night cultural extravaganza also features many shows and performances by artists from all over the world. It also boasts of one of India’s most popular rock music contests: Rock-o-Phonix among other popular competitions.
Usage examples of "alcheringa".
This youth of the time of the Alcheringa had grown, during his travels, into a young man, and yet he had had no chance to be initiated into the secrets and mysteries of his station.
They said that the plant at one time in the alcheringa was the hair of a certain woman who lived deep in the bush.
The day was away back in the alcheringa and it had been very still and very hot, and the whole tribe, with the exception of one man, lay amongst the bracken in the shade of big eucalypti and lesser myrtles and other scrub.
Amongst the Central Australian natives there is never any idea of appealing for assistance to any one of these Alcheringa ancestors in any way, nor is there any attempt made in the direction of propitiation, with one single exception in the case of the mythic creature called Wollunqua, amongst the Warramunga tribe, who, it may be remarked, is most distinctly regarded as a snake and not as a human being.