Hunters and collectors : the antiquarian imagination in Australia / Tom Griffiths.
Material type:
TextSeries: Studies in Australian historyCambridge, Eng. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996Description: xiv, 416 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 052148281X (alk. paper)
- 0521483492 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities -- Collectors and collecting
- Aboriginal Australians -- Historiography
- Antiquarians -- Australia -- Biography
- Collectors and collecting -- Australia
- Scientists -- Australia -- Biography
- Australia -- Antiquities -- Collection and preservation
- Australia -- Historiography
- 994.01 20
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | State Botanical Collection | RBG | 994.01 HUN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | LRBM00247903 |
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-402) and index.
Machine derived contents note: Part I. Collection: 1. Hunting culture -- 2. Victorian skulduggery -- 3. The stone age -- 4. The nuclear family -- Part II. Possession: 5. Past silences -- 6. The natural history of Melbourne -- 7. Land rites -- 8. Journeys to the centre -- Part III. Preservation: 9. The discipline of memory -- 10. Keeping places -- 11. Progress through preservation -- 12. History and natural history -- Epilogue.
Biographical sketches of amateur scientists and humanists and their influence on popular perceptions of nature and the past; rise of the heritage movement; restoration of Aboriginal sites and artefacts; changing role of museums; environmental conflicts; includes accounts of the collecting of Aboriginal remains and artefacts; stone tools; radiocarbon dating; concept of wilderness; archaeologists; historians; cultural history; institutionalisation of the past; perceptions of Aboriginal peoples and culture.
RBG copy Bookfest 2002.
