Hunters and Collectors by Tom Griffiths

Hunters and Collectors by Tom Griffiths

Hunters and Collectors is about historical consciousness and environmental sensibilities in European Australia from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. It is in part a collective biography of amateur antiquarians, archaeologists, naturalists, journalists and historians: people who shaped the Australian historical imagination. Dr Griffiths illuminates the way these avid collectors and investigators of the Australian land and of its indigenous inhabitants contributed a sense of identity at colony-wide and eventually nationwide level. He also considers the rise of professional history, anthropology and archaeology in the universities, which ignored the efforts of the amateurs. Griffiths shows how the seemingly trivial activities of these hunters and collectors feed into the political and environmental debates of the 1990s. This book is outstanding in its originality, interpretative insight and literary flair.

Review of the hardback: '… Griffiths breaks some fascinating ground in this thought provoking and engaging study of private Australian collectors …' The Australian
Review of the hardback: '… is a challenging, imaginative study of the politics and processes that continue to shape our historyWhile aimed at a specialist audience, the writing is lucid enough to appeal to the general reader'. The Bulletin

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ISBN 13	9780521483490
ISBN 10	0521483492
Title	Hunters and Collectors
Author	Tom Griffiths
Series	Studies In Australian History
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	1996-04-01
Number of pages	432
Prizes	Winner of Ernest Scott Prize for History 1997
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