Foragers or Farmers: Dark Emu and the Controversy over Aboriginal Agriculture

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dc.contributor.authorKeen, Ian
dc.date.accessioned2023-12-14T21:36:32Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.date.updated2022-09-11T08:16:44Z
dc.description.abstractBruce Pascoe's book Dark Emu, which has been a publishing phenomenon in Australia, argues that Aboriginal people were not 'mere' hunter-gatherers in 1788, but were farming. This article sets the argument of the book within the context of the views of archaeologists and anthropologists, as well as other historians, about Aboriginal agriculture. Some have argued that Aboriginal people were hunter-gatherers and asked why they did not adopt agriculture, while others have suggested that at least some groups were practicing farming. The article finds that while the boundary between foraging and farming is a fuzzy one, Aboriginal people were indeed hunters, gatherers and fishers at the time of the British colonisation of Australia.en_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn0066-4677en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/309898
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis Groupen_AU
dc.rights© 2020 The University of Western Australiaen_AU
dc.sourceAnthropological Forumen_AU
dc.subjectAboriginal Australiaen_AU
dc.subjectagricultureen_AU
dc.subjecthunter-gatherersen_AU
dc.subjectDark Emuen_AU
dc.subjectcritiqueen_AU
dc.titleForagers or Farmers: Dark Emu and the Controversy over Aboriginal Agricultureen_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue1en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage128en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage106en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationKeen, Ian, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailrepository.admin@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidKeen, Ian, u8800144en_AU
local.description.embargo2099-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor440100 - Anthropologyen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationa383154xPUB17355en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume31en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1080/00664677.2020.1861538en_AU
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-85099039005
local.identifier.thomsonIDWOS:000605035400001
local.identifier.uidSubmittedBya383154en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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