Second Nature: The History and Implications of Australia as Aboriginal Landscape by Lesley Head

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has light creasing at edges and spine. Interior and binding are also very good.

In Second Nature, Lesley Head examines modern Australia's efforts to come to terms with its Aboriginal past. Drawing on anthropology, archaeology, and history, Head shows that through their use of fire and their methods of hunting and gathering, Aboriginal ancestors transformed the country's biophysical landscape in a variety of still-debated ways.

These findings present a dramatic shift away from the nineteenth-century evolutionary models, which viewed Aborigines as an unchanging people in an unchanging land.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers, please note that this book may contain descriptions and/or images of people who have passed away.