A continent of hunter-gatherers?
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Article Title | A continent of hunter-gatherers? |
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ERA Journal ID | 7963 |
Article Category | Notes or commentaries |
Authors | |
Author | Barker, Bryce |
Journal Title | Australian Archaeology |
Journal Citation | 87 (3), pp. 305-306 |
Number of Pages | 2 |
Year | 2021 |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Place of Publication | Australia |
ISSN | 0312-2417 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/03122417.2021.1991385 |
Web Address (URL) | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03122417.2021.1991385 |
Abstract | In the popular Western imagination the nineteenth century unilineal social evolutionary theories of Tylor, Morgan and Spencer are often still commonly held in which ‘hunter-gatherer’ is essentially a metaphor for primitive in which – to quote Hobbes – life was ‘… nasty brutish and short’. The idea that hunters and gatherers lived a perilous existence – eking out a living, teetering on the brink of existence, desperately seeking the next meal – is a powerful trope in the Western imagination with the idea that it is only when we became farmers that we truly ‘progressed.’ |
Keywords | Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, hunter-gatherers |
Contains Sensitive Content | Does not contain sensitive content |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 439999. Other history, heritage and archaeology not elsewhere classified |
Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
Byline Affiliations | School of Humanities and Communication |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q6w11/a-continent-of-hunter-gatherers
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