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Dark emu : Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture. [Paperback]

Pascoe, Bruce2018
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"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."
Imprint:
Broome, Western Australia : Magabala Books Aboriginal Corporation, 2018, 2019.
Collation:
277 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Notes:
First published 2014.Includes bibliographical references: (pages 249-264) and index.
Contents:
1.Agriculture2.Aquaculture3.Population and housing4.Storage and preservation5.Fire6.The heavens, language, and the law7.An Australian agricultural revolution8.Accepting history and creating the future.
Awards:
Winner, NSW Premier's Literary Award Book of the Year.Winner, New South Wales Indigenous Writer's Prize, 2016.
ISBN:
9781921248016
Dewey class:
305.89915
Language:
English
Added title:
BRN:
353510
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