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Dark Emu :
aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture /

Pascoe, Bruce, 1947-

Dark Emu : aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture / Bruce Pascoe. - New edition. - 277 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Originally published: 2014.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-264) and index.

"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"--.

Winner, NSW Premier's Literary Award Book of the Year. Winner, New South Wales Indigenous Writer's Prize, 2016.

9781921248016 1921248017


Aboriginal Australians--Antiquities.
Aboriginal Australians--Social life and customs.
Aboriginal Australians--Agriculture.
Land use, Rural--Australia
Hunting and gathering societies--Australia

GN666 / .P373 2018

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