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.
Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Terminology
xiii
Introduction
3
(12)
Part One Overview
Hunter-Gatherers, Land, and the Past
15
(18)
Part Two Embedding
Zones and Strata, or How the Aborigines Became Living Fossils
33
(28)
Nomads
55
(6)
Timeless and Placeless
61
(28)
All the Children She Had
82
(7)
Part Three Unsettling
Numbering Deep Time
89
(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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