Dark emu : Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture. / Bruce Pascoe.

By: Pascoe, Bruce, 1947- [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Broome, Western Australia : Magabala Books Aboriginal Corporation, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: New editionDescription: 277 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781921248016Subject(s): Aboriginal Australians -- Agriculture | Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities | Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs | Hunting and gathering societies | Landuse, Rural | Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities | Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs | Aboriginal Australians -- Agriculture | Land use, Rural -- Australia | Hunting and gathering societies -- Australia | AustraliaDDC classification: 305.89915 LOC classification: GN666
Contents:
1.Agriculture -- 2.Aquaculture -- 3.Population and housing -- 4.Storage and preservation -- 5.Fire -- 6.The heavens, language, and the law -- 7.An Australian agricultural revolution -- 8.Accepting history and creating the future.
Summary: "Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests that systems of food production and land management have been blatantly understated in modern retellings of early Aboriginal history, and that a new look at Australia’s past is required"--Publisher's website.
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305. 89915 PAS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available al42000205400b

First published 2014.

Includes bibliographical references: (pages 249-264) and index.

1.Agriculture -- 2.Aquaculture -- 3.Population and housing -- 4.Storage and preservation -- 5.Fire -- 6.The heavens, language, and the law -- 7.An Australian agricultural revolution -- 8.Accepting history and creating the future.

"Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests that systems of food production and land management have been blatantly understated in modern retellings of early Aboriginal history, and that a new look at Australia’s past is required"--Publisher's website.

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