Second Nature: The History and Implications of Australia as Aboriginal Landscape
- ISBN-10
- 0815605870
- ISBN-13
- 9780815605874
- Series
- Second Nature
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000-04-01
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Author
- Lesley Head
Description
In Second Nature, Lesley Head examines modem Australia's efforts to come to terms with its Aboriginal past. Like other postcolonial countries, Australia has been confronted by research challenging the myth of a prehistoric (pre -1788) pristine wilderness. Drawing on anthropology, archeology, and history, Head shows that through their use of fire and their methods of hunting and gathering, Aboriginal ancestors transformed the country's biophysical landscape in a variety of still debated ways. These findings present a dramatic shift away from the nineteenth-century evolutionary models, which viewed Aborigines as an unchanging people in an unchanging land. Given the strength of this challenge to earlier models and the increasing political voice of indigenous people, Head asks why the disruptions to colonial thinking have been so partial. She revisits historical debates to show that Australia's colonial heritage is more deeply embedded in contemporary environmental attitudes than is generally acknowledged. In 1992 the Australian legal system rejected the myth of terra nullius—land belonging to no one—and recognized the persistence of Aboriginal ownership.
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