Long history, deep time : deepening histories of place /

"For all the methodological innovations that the discipline of academic history has seen since its birth in Europe in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, historians have on the whole, in deciding what constitutes historical evidence, clung to the idea of the primacy of the writt...

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Other Authors: McGrath, Ann, 1956- (Editor), Jebb, Mary Anne (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Acton, A.C.T. : ANU Press, 2015.
Series:Aboriginal history monograph series.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Deep histories in time, or crossing the great divide? / Ann McGrath
  • 2. Tjukurpa time / Diana James
  • 3. Contemporary concepts of time in Western science and philosophy / Peter J. Riggs
  • 4. The mutability of time and space as a means of healing history in an Australian aboriginal community / Rob Paton
  • 5. Arnhem land to Adelaide / Karen Hughes
  • 6. Categories of 'old' and 'new' in Western Arnhem land bark painting / Luke Taylor
  • 7. Dispossession is a legitimate experience / Peter Read
  • 8. Lingering inheritance / Julia Torpey Hurst
  • 9. Historyless people / Jeanine Leane
  • 10. Panara / Bruce Pascoe
  • 11. The past in the present? / Harry Allen
  • 12. Lives and lines / Martin Porr
  • 13. The arch aeology of the Willandra / Nicola Stern
  • 14. Collaborative histories and the Willandra Lake / Malcolm Allbrook and Ann McGrath.