| Description |
xiii, 272 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Space, place, and society |
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Space, place, and society.
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| Contents |
pt. 1. Overview : Hunter-gatherers, land, and the past -- pt. 2. Embedding : Zones and strata, or How the Aborigines became living fossils ; Nomads ; Timeless and placeless ; All the children she had -- pt 3. Unsettling : Numbering deep time ; A history for the people without history ; Landscape: pure and primordial? ; No dams ; Peopling the wilderness ; New Australia -- pt. 4. Reworking : The new colonizers ; Summerland ; Aboriginality, hunter-gatherers, and tradition ; The national park ; Beyond the colonial heritage in environmental debate ; Conclusion |
| Summary |
"In Second Nature, Lesley Head examines modern Australia's efforts to come to terms with its Aboriginal past." "Drawing on anthropology, archeology, and history, Head shows that through their use of fire and their methods of hunting and gathering, Aboriginal ancestors transformed the country's biophysical landscape in a variety of still debated ways. These findings present a dramatic shift away from the nineteenth-century evolutionary models, which viewed Aborigines as an unchanging people in an unchanging land."--Jacket |
| Analysis |
Aborigines |
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Natural resources |
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Land tenure |
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Terra nullius |
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Colonialism |
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Aboriginal culture |
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Historiography |
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Federal issue |
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Human ecology |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Also available online via the World Wide Web by subscription to netLibrary, Inc. (CEIRC Shared Collection) |
| Subject |
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Australia.
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Natural resources -- Australia.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure.
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Human ecology -- Australia.
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Landscape assessment -- Australia.
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| Author |
NetLibrary, Inc.
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| LC no. |
99024394 |
| ISBN |
0815605870 alkaline paper |
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