Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
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Description
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the ‘hunter-gatherer’ tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut colonial myths about Indigenous land-use and cultural practices that have worked to justify dispossession.
Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests that systems of food production and land management have been blatantly understated in modern retellings of early Aboriginal history, and that a new look at Australia’s past is required.
WINNER – 2016 Indigenous Writer’s Prize in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards & 2016 Book of the Year in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards
SHORTLISTED – 2014 History Book Award in the Queensland Literary Awards & 2014 Victorian Premier’s Award for Indigenous Writing
278 pp. paperback
21 x 13.5 cm
Published June 2018 by Magabala Books