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About this book
In 1908 English gentleman, Ernest Westlake, packed a tent, a bicycle and forty tins of food and sailed to Tasmania. On mountains, beaches and in sheep paddocks he collected over 13, 000 Aboriginal stone tools. Westlake believed he had found the remnants of an extinct race whose culture was akin to the most ancient Stone Age Europeans. But in the remotest corners of the island Westlake encountered living Indigenous communities. Into the Heart of Tasmania tells a story of discovery and realisation. One man's ambition to rewrite the history of human culture inspires an exploration of the controversy stirred by Tasmanian Aboriginal history. It brings to life how Australian and British national identities have been fashioned by shame and triumph over the supposed destruction of an entire race. To reveal the beating heart of Aboriginal Tasmania is to be confronted with a history that has never ended.
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Index
1917 Club, Westlake joins 154
A Modern Utopia 160
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission 203
Aboriginal Information Centre see Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre
Aboriginal tools see stone tools
Aborigines see mainland Aborigines; Tasmanian Aborigines
Aborigines of Tasmania, see The Aborigines of Tasmania
āAbout Snakesā 158ā159
Adventure Bay, Westlake explores 70
Adventurerās Handbook, The 154
Allen, Jack 139
Allison, William R 130
Amabel, Florence 36
anatomy 76 see also physical anthropology
Ancestorās Tale, The 202ā203
Ancient Hunters and their Modern Representatives 167
Anthropological Institute see Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
anthropology see also evolutionary theory
āarmchairā 24
Boasās approach to 25
by correspondence 25, 78
early Australian 51ā52, 78
emergent discipline 19, 53, 62
extinction and 53, 77, 90
in the field 25, 174
physical see also anatomy 63, 76, 94, 124
Rothās approach to 75, 78
Spencerās approach to 25, 50ā51
Tylorās influence to 22, 62ā63
Westlakeās approach to see Westlake
āantieolithismeā 48
antiquity see human antiquity
Aranda people 53ā54
archaeology see also Jones; Mulvaney
Australian ādecades of discoveryā 176, 179
Cambridge connection with Australia 179, 201
early Australian 52, 180
emergent discipline 19ā20
feminism and 198
global perspective 205
Pleistocene 198
Tasmanian 12, 176
Archer family 85ā86
Armstrong, Harry and Victoria 129ā130
Arthur, Lieutenant-Governor George, proclaims martia...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- Author note
- Prologue: The gift
- The decision
- The collector
- Leaving home
- The same science
- Collecting stones
- Collecting memories
- Fanny Smith
- The Islanders
- Photographing stones
- Such sweepings
- Going home
- A new order
- In his wake
- Below the surface
- āOn our landā
- Epilogue: The return
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index