Dark emu
Pascoe, Bruce, 1947-2018
Book
Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. The evidence insists that Aboriginal people right across the continent were using domesticated plants, sowing, harvesting, irrigating, and storing, behaviours inconsistent with the hunter-gatherer tag. Gerritsen and Gammage in their latest books support this premise but Pascoe takes this further and challenges the hunter-gatherer tag as a convenient lie. Almost all the evidence in Dark Emu comes from the records and diaries of the Australian explorers, impeccable sources.
Main title:
Dark emu / Bruce Pascoe.
Author:
Pascoe, Bruce, 1947-, author
Work:
Imprint:
Broome, WA : Magabala Books, 2018.©2014
Collation:
277 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: 2014.
Awards:
Winner - Book of the Year in the 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Awards ; Winner - Indigenous Writer's Prize in the 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Awards ; Shortlisted - History Book Award in the 2014 Queensland Literary Awards ; Shortlisted - 2014 Victorian Premier's Award for Indigenous Writing.
Dewey class:
305.89915994.0049915
Language:
English
BRN:
361862