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DARK EMU: ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA AND THE BIRTH OF AG 
Author:   Bruce Pascoe  
RRP:   $22.99
Online Price :  $20.70
10+ Copy Price :  $19.55         
20+ Copy Price :  $18.40
Format:   Paperback 
Type of Book:   Aboriginal Information 
Age:   15+ 
ISBN:   9781921248016
Category:   Aboriginal Studies
Published:   29/11/2019
Availability:   Subject To Availability
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‘Dark Emu injects a profound authenticity into the conversation about how we Australians understand our continent...[It is] essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what Australia once was, or what it might yet be if we heed the lessons of long and sophisticated human occupation.’ — Judges for 2016 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. The evidence insists that Aboriginal people right across the continent were using domesticated plants, sowing, harvesting, irrigating, and storing — behaviours inconsistent with the hunter-gatherer tag. Gerritsen and Gammage in their latest books support this premise but Pascoe takes this further and challenges the hunter-gatherer tag as a convenient lie. Almost all the evidence in Dark Emu comes from the records and diaries of the Australian explorers, impeccable sources. Bruce’s comments on his book compared to Gammage’s: 'My book is about food production, housing construction and clothing, whereas Gammage was interested in the appearance of the country at contact. [Gammage] doesn’t contest hunter gatherer labels either, whereas that is at the centre of my argument.'



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