Farmers Or Hunter Gatherers

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
Publisher Place: Carlton
Publisher Year: 2021
Edition: Reprint

Description: 264 pages. Ex-Library. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: An authoritative study of pre-colonial Australia that dismantles and reframes popular narratives of First Nations land management and food productionAustralians understanding of Aboriginal society prior to the British invasion from 1788 has been transformed since the publication of Bruce Pascoes Dark Emu in 2014. It argued that classical Aboriginal society was more sophisticated than Australians had been led to believe because it resembled more closely the farming communities of Europe.In Farmers or Hunter-gatherers Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe ask why Australians have been so receptive to the notion that farming represents an advance from hunting and gathering. Drawing on the knowledge of Aboriginal elders, previously not included within this discussion, and decades of anthropological scholarship, Sutton and Walshe provide extensive evidence to support their argument that classical Aboriginal society was a hunter-gatherer society and as sophisticated as the traditional European farming methods.Farmers or Hunter-gatherers asks Australians to develop a deeper understanding and appreciation of Aboriginal society and culture.

ISBN: 9780522877854