Second Nature
Subtitle: The History and Implications of Australia As Aboriginal Landscape (Space, Place, and Society)
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: April 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780815605874
Subjects: Economic history; History of specific racial & ethnic groups; Indigenous peoples; Land rights; Social history; Sociology; Earth Sciences - Geography; Archaeology / Anthropology; Social Science; Australia; Human Ecology; Archaeology; Australia & New Zealand - Australia; Anthropology - General; Aboriginal Australians; Land tenure; Landscape assessment
Description: "In Second Nature, Lesley Head examines modern Australia's efforts to come to terms with its Aboriginal past.".

"Drawing on anthropology, archeology, 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."--BOOK JACKET.