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Published 2014 by Magabala Books.
Bruce Pascoe: Dark Emu : Black Seeds (2014, Magabala Books)
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- 978-1-922142-44-3
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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. --back cover
Subjects
- Aboriginal australians
- Agriculture, australia
- Agriculture, history
- Land use, rural
- Hunting and gathering societies
- Australia, history
- Australia, antiquities
- Australia, social life and customs