Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe

Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe

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 behaviors 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 comes from the records and diaries of the Australian explorers, impeccable sources.

Bruce Pascoe was born in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond to Bunurong parents. He is a member of the Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-operative in southern Victoria and has worked for the Commonwealth Schools Commission as the director of the Australian Studies Programme. Bruce has worked as a teacher, a farmer, a fisherman, a bartender, a fencing contractor, a lecturer, an Aboriginal language researcher, an archaeological site worker, and an editor, among other things. Night Animals and Nightjar are short story collections; Fox, Ruby Eyed Coucal, Ribcage, Shark, Earth, and Ocean are novels; Cape Otway: Coast of Secrets and Convincing Ground are historical works; Foxies in a Firehose is a children's book; and Fog a Dox is a young adult novel that won the Prime Ministers Literary Prize for YA Literature in 2013.

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ISBN 13	9781922142436
ISBN 10	1922142433
Title	Dark Emu
Author	Bruce Pascoe
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Magabala Books
Year published	2014-03-03
Number of pages	176
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