Machine derived contents note: Part I. Collection: 1. Hunting culture -- 2. Victorian skulduggery -- 3. The stone age -- 4. The nuclear family -- Part II. Possession: 5. Past silences -- 6. The natural history of Melbourne -- 7. Land rites -- 8. Journeys to the centre -- Part III. Preservation: 9. The discipline of memory -- 10. Keeping places -- 11. Progress through preservation -- 12. History and natural history -- Epilogue
Summary
Biographical sketches of amateur scientists and humanists and their influence on popular perceptions of nature and the past; rise of the heritage movement; restoration of Aboriginal sites and artefacts; changing role of museums; environmental conflicts; includes accounts of the collecting of Aboriginal remains and artefacts; stone tools; radiocarbon dating; concept of wilderness; archaeologists; historians; cultural history; institutionalisation of the past; perceptions of Aboriginal peoples and culture