![]() They highly valued the continuing reproduction of what had gone before.” Aboriginal societies were the opposite of that. In claiming, for instance, that our First Nations people lived in villages of thousands, or built stone houses, or sowed fields of crops, or might have been the world’s first bakers, it fails as a work of scholarship and dangerously emphasises the values of “ingenuity, sophistication and creativity”.Įxplains Sutton: “That’s the culture of cleverness, invention, change - constant change - a boredom with constancy. ![]() ![]() Indeed, a new book by veteran anthropologist Peter Sutton and archaeologist Keryn Walsche - Farmers or Hunter-Gatherers: The Dark Emu Debate (released by Melbourne University Press next week) - argues that Pascoe’s book in fact devalues pre-colonial Aboriginal society. The publishing sensation Dark Emu rewrote our understanding of Indigenous history when it was published in 2014, but accordingly to a pair of veteran academics in the field, there is little real evidence for many of author Bruce Pascoe’s grander claims. ![]()
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