Dark emu : Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture.

Resource Information

The work Dark emu : Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture. represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Dark emu : Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture.

Title remainder

Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture.

Statement of responsibility

Bruce Pascoe

Creator

• truePascoe, Bruce, 1947-

Author

• truePascoe, Bruce, 1947-

Subject

• Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs
• trueHunting and gathering societies -- Australia
• Aboriginal Australians -- Agriculture
• trueLand use, Rural -- Australia
• Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities

Language

eng

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

Awards note

• Winner, NSW Premier's Literary Award Book of the Year.
• Winner, New South Wales Indigenous Writer's Prize, 2016.

Cataloging source

VIT

Dewey number

305.89915

Illustrations

photographs

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction