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Aboriginal Biocultural Knowledge in South-eastern Australia: Perspectives of Early Colonists by Fred Cahir, Ian D. Clark, Philip A. Clarke
Category: Australian History
Indigenous Australians have long understood sustainable hunting and harvesting, seasonal changes in flora and fauna, predator-prey relationships and imbalances, and seasonal fire management. Yet the extent of their knowledge and expertise has been largely unknown and underappreciated by non-Aboriginal c ...Show more
Aboriginal People and Their Plants by Philip A. Clarke
Category: Home and Garden
The book is unique, spanning the gap between botany and indigenous studies. It differs from other published Australian bushtucker overviews by treating the study of plants as a window upon which to delve into Aboriginal culture. The topic of Aboriginal use and perception of plants is vast and therefore ...Show more
Aboriginal People and Their Plants by Philip A. Clarke
Category: Australian History
Treats the study of plants as a window upon which to delve into Aboriginal culture. This book offers an overview to assist readers appreciate the depth of indigenous ecological knowledge about the environment.
Aboriginal Peoples and Birds in Australia: Historical and Cultural Relationships by Philip A. Clarke
Category: Australian Studies
Australia is home to many distinctive species of birds, and Aboriginal peoples have developed close alliances with them over the millennia of their custodianship of this country. Aboriginal Peoples and Birds in Australia: Historical and Cultural Relationships provides a review of the broad physical, his ...Show more
Aboriginal Plant Collectors: Botanists and Australian Aboriginal People in the Nineteenth Century by Philip A. Clarke
Category: Australian History
Explores the impact of indigenous people upon the European discovery of Australian plants, spanning the period from the expansion of world exploration in the seventeenth century to the beginning of systematic scientific studies in the late nineteenth century.
Australian Plants as Aboriginal Tools by Philip A. Clarke
Category: Australiana
In Australia, the flora has had a broad impact on the lives of Aboriginal hunter-gatherers, having provided them with the essential materials for making their food, medicine, narcotics and stimulants. Plants were also ecologically important for maintaining the populations of terrestrial fauna that hunte ...Show more
Discovering Aboriginal Plant Use : The Journeys of an Australian Anthropologist by Philip A. Clarke (Head of Anthropology and Manager of Sciences, The South Australian Museum, Australia)
Category: Home and Garden
The author argues that we can better understand a people if we know how they see and use plants. In Discovering Aboriginal Plant Use, Clarke dips into his field journals to provide a rich account of journeys, as both anthropologist and ethnobotanist, that span the temperate, arid and tropical zones of A ...Show more
Where the Ancestors Walked: Australia as an Aboriginal Landscape by Philip A. Clarke
Category: History
This work delves into the exciting story of one of the oldest continuous civilizations on earth. Beginning with the complexities of early human colonization and continuing through later European resettlement, the history of Australia's native people is told in a wide-ranging and sympathetic fashion. Dra ...Show more
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