Dark Emu

Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident?

De: Bruce Pascoe

Narrado por: Bruce Pascoe

A completely accessible, compelling and riveting account of pre-invasion Aboriginal agricultural systems.

Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests that systems of food production and land management have been blatantly understated in modern retellings of early Aboriginal history, and that a new look at Australia's past is required.

©2014 Bruce Pascoe (P)2017 Bolinda audio

One of the best books ever!!!!

Worth every penny and more!!! Thank you so much for this amazing and precious work - I wish I had all your resources to read now!!

Fascinating book on Australia’s deep history

Well-written book on aboriginal practices (agriculture, fishing, housing, artistic, etc) and evidence for the timeline of these. Their ingenuity and longevity are surprising and very interesting. The context of the book is contrasting what is now known about their culture, technology and achievements against the devastating lies spread through Australian schools and culture, an interesting if painful story in itself.

Wonderful

Fantastic book. I’d love it if he wrote more as his voice is quite nice to listen to as well as the obvious importance of his words.

Fascinating!

A nicely balanced and rational discussion of Australian Aboriginal history and how to incorporate and include indigenous culture and sustainable practices into modern society. History is most ugly when colonial thinking is maintained into current times. I appreciate the perspective and education I gained by listening to this book.

A thought provoking, perception changing read

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari was a book that affected my overall perception of the relationship between humans and planet earth in quite a profound way, This book and the narrative explained by Pascoe had the same impact on me about Australia, as an Australian, albeit a relatively recent migrant Australian. The basic narrative is that the tale spun by colonialists and now the established narrative for modern day Australians, is that the indigenous inhabitants were primitive nomads. Pascoe makes the entirely plausible case, backed up by evidence from the writing of early settlers themselves, that the indigenous peoples of Australia had co-existing with the Australian flora and fauna for 60,000 to 120,000 years and had actually evolved to have quite a sophisticated and well evolved relationship with the land from which the modern settlers (and even us now) could have much to learn. He argues they were farmers as well as hunter gatherers and did live in dwellings and formed communities and forms of governance structures that worked well and enabled them to live in relative harmony both with each other and with nature. Western settlers came in and changed everything, with a degree of what can now clearly be perceived as a superior arrogance which resulted in a complete failure to notice what the original Australians had achieved. A fascinating read for any Australian.