ISBN:
1865081078
,
9781865081076
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 192 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version The Pure State of Nature : Sacred Cows, Destructive Myths and the Environment
DDC:
304.2/0994
Keywords:
Aboriginal Australians History
;
Land use History
;
Human ecology History
;
Nature Effect of human beings on
;
History
;
Aboriginal Australians Social life and customs
;
Land settlement History
Abstract:
This text offers an alternative account of the history of the Australian environment and the lessons to be learned for conservation in the next millennium. Spanning 50,000 years, it explores the myths that abound in scientific and popular writing, and the theories about the place of humans in the ecology of this vast landmass. In particular, the author demolishes the widely accepted orthodoxy about the use of fire by Aborigines and their supposed part in the extinction of the Australian megafauna
Description / Table of Contents:
""Foreword""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""1 Paved with good intentions: Theories on Aborigines and the environment""; ""2 An unchanging people in an unchanging land: Archaeology and the past""; ""3 A slow strangulation of the mind?: Eating fish is wrong""; ""4 A people so inclined: To farm or not to farm""; ""5 Opened up a landscape: Firestick farming and the control burners""; ""6 The extinction of such pachyderms: The great megafauna debate""; ""7 Most enlightened conservationists""; ""8 Convict's dilemma""; ""9 Ghosts""; ""10 Theses nailed to the door""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 1""
Description / Table of Contents:
""1-8""""9-19""; ""Chapter 2""; ""1-7""; ""8-9""; ""Chapter 3""; ""1-9""; ""10-13""; ""Chapter 4""; ""Chapter 5""; ""1-19""; ""11-12""; ""Chapter 6""; ""1-11""; ""12-23""; ""24""; ""Chapter 7""; ""1-13""; ""14-16""; ""Chapter 8""; ""Chapter 9""; ""Index""; ""Aboriginal culture/civilisation""; "" diversity of 27""; "" diversity of 43""; "" non-Aboriginal perceptions of viii-ix, 2""; "" non-Aboriginal perceptions of viii-ix, 2""; "" non-Aboriginal perceptions of viii-ix, 3""; "" non-Aboriginal perceptions of viii-ix, 3""; "" non-Aboriginal perceptions of viii-ix, 22""
Description / Table of Contents:
"" non-Aboriginal perceptions of viii-ix, 22"""" viii, 7""; "" viii, 22""; "" viii, 28""; "" viii, 31""; "" viii, 68""; "" viii, 128""; ""Aborigines""; "" and evolutionary theory 8""; "" and evolutionary theory 9""; "" and evolutionary theory 11""; "" colonists' perceptions of 3""; "" colonists' perceptions of 14""; "" colonists' perceptions of 27""; ""Aborigines and the environment""; "" 26""; "" 29""; "" 34""; "" 51""; "" 57""; "" 103""; "" 140""; ""Adams, Phillip 8""; ""Alyawarra people 133-4""; ""Anbarra people 134""; ""ancestors, Aboriginal 11""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Anderson, William 104""""animal products 67-8""; ""animals""; "" breeding practices 151""; "" domestication of 58""; "" domestication of 61-2""; "" domestication of 67""; "" domestication of 149""; "" domestication of 150""; "" harvesting species of 150-1""; "" in circuses 145""; "" killing/abuse of 144""; "" killing/abuse of 144""; "" killing/abuse of 145""; "" killing/abuse of 145""; "" killing/abuse of 146""; "" killing/abuse of 146""; "" killing/abuse of 163""; "" killing/abuse of 163""; "" killing/abuse of 173""; "" killing/abuse of 173""
Description / Table of Contents:
""animals/natural world"""" 5""; "" 6""; "" 148""; "" Aboriginal perception of 128""; "" Aboriginal perception of 130""; "" Aboriginal perception of 137-9""; "" Aboriginal perception of 142""; "" Aboriginal perception of 143-4""; "" non-Aboriginal attitude to/perception of 2-3""; "" non-Aboriginal attitude to/perception of 2-3""; "" non-Aboriginal attitude to/perception of 13-14""; "" non-Aboriginal attitude to/perception of 13-14""; "" non-Aboriginal attitude to/perception of 17""; "" non-Aboriginal attitude to/perception of 17""
Description / Table of Contents:
"" non-Aboriginal attitude to/perception of 138""
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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