Second Nature

, by Head, Lesley

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ISBN: 9780815605874 | 0815605870
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 4/1/2000

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Examines the role of Australia's aboriginal people in modern society.

Lesley Head is associate professor in the School of Geosciences, University of Wollongong, Australia.

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Acknowledgments

Terminology

xiii

Introduction

(12)

Part One Overview

Hunter-Gatherers, Land, and the Past

(18)

Part Two Embedding

Zones and Strata, or How the Aborigines Became Living Fossils

(28)

Nomads

(6)

Timeless and Placeless

(28)

All the Children She Had

(7)

Part Three Unsettling

Numbering Deep Time

(21)

A History for the People Without History

109

(1)

Landscape: Pure and Primordial?

110

(28)

No Dams

133

(5)

Peopling the Wilderness

138

(27)

New Australia

157

(8)

Part Four Reworking

The New Colonizers

165

(27)

Summerland

190

(2)

Aboriginality, Hunter-Gatherers, and Tradition

192

(22)

The National Park

213

(1)

Beyond the Colonial Heritage in Environmental Debate

214

(21)

Conclusion

235

(6)

Glossary

241

(2)

Works Cited

243

(24)

Index

267

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Second Nature

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