Hunters and Collectors
Hunters and Collectors
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USDHunters and Collectors is about historical consciousness and environmental sensibilities in European Australia from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. It is in part a collective biography of the amateur scientists and humanists who have shaped the Australian historical imagination. Griffiths illuminates the way these avid collectors and discussants of the Australian land and its indigenous inhabitants have contributed a sense of national identity. He also shows how their activities feed into the political and environmental debates of the 1990s.
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"...this is a model of a book in the way the author skillfully blends meticulous research, detailed description, encompassing ideas, and sophisticated insight. The book also has excellent and truly helpful illustrations." Miriam Kahn, Pacific Affairs
Product details
April 1997Paperback
9780521483490
432 pages
229 × 152 × 25 mm
0.63kg
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Table of Contents
- Part I. Collection:
- 1. Hunting culture
- 2. Victorian skulduggery
- 3. The stone age
- 4. The nuclear family
- Part II. Possession:
- 5. Past silences
- 6. The natural history of Melbourne
- 7. Land rites
- 8. Journeys to the centre
- Part III. Preservation:
- 9. The discipline of memory
- 10. Keeping places
- 11. Progress through preservation
- 12. History and natural history
- Epilogue.
