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Pascoe, Bruce

 
9781947534087: Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture
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ISBN 10 : 1947534084 ISBN 13 : 9781947534087
Editeur : Scribe US, 2018

Synopsis

Contradicts the conventional wisdom that native peoples were primitive hunter-gatherers

History has portrayed Australia's First Peoples, the Aboriginals, as hunter-gatherers who lived on an empty, uncultivated land. History is wrong.

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 behaviors were inconsistent with the hunter-gatherer tag, which turns out have been a convenient lie that worked 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 Australians.

Dark Emu, a bestseller in Australia, won both the Book of the Year Award and the Indigenous Writer's Prize in the 2016 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.

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À propos de l'auteur

Bruce Pascoe lives in Australia and has a Bunurong, Tasmanian, and Yuin heritage. Dark Emu won both the Book of the Year Award and the Indigenous Writer's Prize in the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.

Bruce is currently working on two films for ABC TV and a novel.

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Éditeur
Scribe US
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1947534084
ISBN 13 
9781947534087
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
288
Coordonnées du fabricant
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