Farmers or Hunter-gatherers? : The Dark Emu Debate.
2021
DU123.4
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Title
Farmers or Hunter-gatherers? : The Dark Emu Debate.
Author
ISBN
0522877869
9780522877861 (electronic bk.)
9780522877854
0522877850
9780522877861 (electronic bk.)
9780522877854
0522877850
Published
Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Publishing, 2021.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
YBP302315119
Call Number
DU123.4
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1255170948
Summary
"An authoritative study of pre-colonial Australia that dismantles and reframes popular narratives of First Nations land management and food production. Australians' understanding of Aboriginal society prior to the British invasion from 1788 has been transformed since the publication of Bruce Pascoe's Dark Emu in 2014. It argued that classical Aboriginal society was more sophisticated than Australians had been led to believe because it resembled more closely the farming communities of Europe. In Farmers or Hunter-gatherers? Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe ask why Australians have been so receptive to the notion that farming represents an advance from hunting and gathering. Drawing on the knowledge of Aboriginal elders, previously not included within this discussion, and decades of anthropological scholarship, Sutton and Walshe provide extensive evidence to support their argument that classical Aboriginal society was a hunter-gatherer society and as sophisticated as the traditional European farming methods. 'Farmers or Hunter-gatherers?' asks Australians to develop a deeper understanding and appreciation of Aboriginal society and culture"--Publisher's description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Intro
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
About this book
Contents
1. The Dark Emu debate
2. Spiritual propagation
3. The language question
4. Ecological agents and 'firestick farming'
5. Social evolutionism rebirthed
6. The agriculture debate
7. Patterns of apparel
8. 'Aquaculture' or fishing and trapping?
9. Dwellings
10. Mobility
11. The explorers' records
12. 'Agricultural' implements and antiquity
13. Stone circles and 'smoking' trees
Conclusion
Appendix 1: When did Indigenous people arrive in Australia?
Appendix 2: Band movements recorded by William Buckley
Acknowledgements
Image credits
Notes
References
Index
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
About this book
Contents
1. The Dark Emu debate
2. Spiritual propagation
3. The language question
4. Ecological agents and 'firestick farming'
5. Social evolutionism rebirthed
6. The agriculture debate
7. Patterns of apparel
8. 'Aquaculture' or fishing and trapping?
9. Dwellings
10. Mobility
11. The explorers' records
12. 'Agricultural' implements and antiquity
13. Stone circles and 'smoking' trees
Conclusion
Appendix 1: When did Indigenous people arrive in Australia?
Appendix 2: Band movements recorded by William Buckley
Acknowledgements
Image credits
Notes
References
Index
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