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Aboriginal Dreaming Paths and Trading Routes - The Colonisation of the Australian Economic Landscape (Paperback)
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Aboriginal Dreaming Paths and Trading Routes - The Colonisation of the Australian Economic Landscape (Paperback)
Series: First Nations and the Colonial Encounter
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The dreaming paths of Aboriginal nations across Australia formed
major ceremonial routes along which goods and knowledge flowed.
These became the trade routes that criss-crossed Australia and
transported religion and cultural values. This book highlights the
valuable contribution Aboriginal people made in assisting European
explorers, surveyors and stockmen to open the country for
colonisation, and explores the interface between Aboriginal
possession of the Australian continent and European colonisation
and appropriation. Instead of positing a radical disjunction
between cultural competencies, Dale Kerwin considers how European
colonisation of Australia appropriated Aboriginal competence in
terms of the landscape: by tapping into culinary and medicinal
knowledge, water and resource knowledge, hunting, food collecting
and path-finding. As a consequence of this assistance, Aboriginal
dreaming paths and trading routes also became the routes and roads
of colonisers. Indeed, the European colonisation of Australia owes
much of its success to the deliberate process of Aboriginal land
management practices. Dale Kerwin provides a social science context
for the broader study of Aboriginal trading routes by setting out
an historic interpretation of the Aboriginal/European contact
period. His book scrutinises arguments about nomadic and primitive
societies, as well as Romantic views of culture and affluence.
These circumstances and outcomes are juxtaposed with evidence that
indicates that Aboriginal societies are substantially sedentary and
highly developed, capable of functional differentiation and
foresight -- attributes previously only granted to the European
settlers. The hunter-gatherer image of Aboriginal society is
rejected by providing evidence of crop cultivation and land
management, as well as social arrangements that made best use of a
hostile environment. This book is essential reading for all those
who seek to have a better knowledge of Australia and its first
people: it inscribes Aboriginal people firmly in the body of
Australian history.
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