Bruce Pascoe

Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scribe Publications Pty Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 136mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 306g
• ISBN-13: 9781947534087
• ISBN-10: 1947534084
• Artikelnr.: 48858084

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
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
Acknowledgements
Picture credits
Bibliography
Notes
Index