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Long History, Deep Time
Deepening Histories of Place
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- English
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eBook - PDF
Long History, Deep Time
Deepening Histories of Place
About this book
The vast shape-shifting continent of Australia enables us to take a long view of history. We consider ways to cross the great divide between the deep past and the present. Australia's human past is not a short past, so we need to enlarge the scale and scope of history beyond 1788. In ways not so distant, these deeper times happened
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Yes, you can access Long History, Deep Time by Ann McGrath, Mary Anne Jebb, Ann McGrath,Mary Anne Jebb in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Australian & Oceanian History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Illustrations
- Foreword
- Preface: ‘The gift of history’
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- 1. Deep Histories in Time, or Crossing the Great Divide?
- 2. Tjukurpa Time
- 3. Contemporary Concepts of Time in Western Science and Philosophy
- 4. The Mutability of Time and Space as a Means of Healing History in an Australian Aboriginal Community
- 5. Arnhem Land to Adelaide
- 6. Categories of ‘Old’ and ‘New’ in Western Arnhem Land Bark Painting
- 7. Dispossession is a Legitimate Experience
- 8. Lingering Inheritance
- 9. Historyless People
- 10. Panara
- 11. The Past in the Present?
- 12. Lives and Lines
- 13. The Archaeology of the Willandra
- 14. Collaborative Histories of the Willandra Lakes