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Second nature : the history and implications of Australia as Aboriginal landscape

Title: Second nature : the history and implications of Australia as Aboriginal landscape / Lesley Head.
Author: Head, Lesley.
Publication: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2000.

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Description

xiii, 272 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm.

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.

Series Statement

Space, place, and society

Uniform Title

Space, place, and society

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

ISBN

0815605870
9780815605874

LCCN

99024394

OCLC

ocm41017479
41017479
SCSB-1136257

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Princeton University Library