| ISBN |
9781921248016 |
| 1921248017 |
| Author |
Pascoe, Bruce, 1947- (author) |
| Title |
Dark emu : Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture / Bruce Pascoe. |
| Edition |
New edition. |
| Publisher and/or associated date/s |
Broome, Western Australia : Magabala Books Aboriginal Corporation, ©2018. |
| ©2018. |
| Description |
277 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Note |
First published 2014. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references: (pages 249-264) and index. |
| Contents |
1.Agriculture -- 2.Aquaculture -- 3.Population and housing -- 4.Storage and preservation -- 5.Fire -- 6.The heavens, language, and the law -- 7.An Australian agricultural revolution -- 8.Accepting history and creating the future. |
| Summary |
"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"--Publisher's website. |
| Original version |
Originally published
2014. |
| Terms of use |
Culturally sensitive |
| Subjects |
Land use, Aboriginal Australian |
| Land use, Rural -- Australia |
| Aboriginal Australians -- History |
| Agriculture -- Australia -- History |
| Fishing - Fish traps |
| Subsistence and economy - Seasonality |
| Food - Plants - Yams |
| Food - Plants - Seeds / Flour |
| Plants - Nardoo |
| Plants - Pandanus |
| Plants - Grasses |
| Animals - Marine mammals - Whales |
| Ngiyampaa / Ngempa people D22 |
| Dhauwurd Wurrung people S20 |
| Yuin people S67 |
| Wadi Wadi people D4 |
| Settlement and contacts - Colonisation |
| Habitation - Camps - Hearths, ovens, fireplaces etc |
| History - Theory and criticism |
| Settlement and contacts - Explorers - European |
| Housing - Shelters |
| Water supply - Wells and bores |
| Hunting and gathering societies -- Australia |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Agriculture |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities |
| Call number |
2021.235 |
