| Descript |
278 sidor illustrationer 21 cm |
| Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Content |
Introduction -- Agriculture -- Aquaculture -- Population and housing -- Storage and preservation -- Fire -- The heavens, language, and the law -- An Australian agricultural revolution -- Accepting history and creating the future |
| Note |
Were Australia's First People, the Aboriginals, just hunter-gatherers who wandered haplessly from plant to plant, kangaroo to kangaroo, living opportunistically on an empty, uncultivated land? In this seminal book, Bruce Pascoe uncovers evidence that long before the arrival of white men, Aboriginal people across the continent were building dams and wells; planting, irrigating, and harvesting seeds, and then preserving the surplus and storing it in houses, sheds, or secure vessels; and creating elaborate cemeteries and manipulating the landscape. All of these behaviours were inconsistent with the hunter-gatherer tag, which turns out to have been a convenient lie to justify dispossession. Using compelling evidence from the records and diaries of early Australian explorers and colonists, he reveals that Aboriginal 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 - for the benefit of all |
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Jordbruk
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Markanvändning
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Aboriginer -- historia
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Australien
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Historiska skildringar
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History.
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| Classmark |
994.0049915
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Mra
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| ISBN/ISSN |
9781911344780 pocket |
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