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Long History, Deep Time : Deepening Histories of Place.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Aboriginal History MonographsPublisher: Canberra : ANU Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (278 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781925022537
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Long History, Deep TimeDDC classification:
  • 994.00499149999996
LOC classification:
  • DU123.4 -- .L664 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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.
Summary: 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.
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Intro -- 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.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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