LEADER 05879nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910455467003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-85575-557-1 035 $a(CKB)2470000000002687 035 $a(EBL)839342 035 $a(OCoLC)671648391 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000355054 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11233492 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000355054 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10319057 035 $a(PQKB)11621410 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC839342 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC583527 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL839342 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10424578 035 $a(EXLCZ)992470000000002687 100 $a20060428d2006 ua 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe social archaeology of Australian indigenous societies$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Bruno David, Bryce Barker, Ian J. McNiven 210 $aCanberra, A.C.T. $cAboriginal Studies Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (774 p.) 300 $a"Aboriginal Studies Press is the publishing arm of Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Studies"--T.p. verso. 311 $a1-306-03107-9 311 $a0-85575-499-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 322-367) and index. 327 $aContents; Figures and tables; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Part 1 The emergence of social archaeology in Australia; 1. The social archaeology of Indigenous Australia; December 1978; Towards a social archaeology; A different social archaeology for Indigenous societies?; Beyond ecology: socialising Indigenous pasts; The Aboriginal past as socially dynamic; Aboriginal environments as socially constructed; Aboriginal landscapes as socially inscribed; Aboriginal history as social agency; 2. An interview with Harry Lourandos; Acknowledgements 327 $a3. Harry Lourandos' life and work: an Australian archaeological odysseyAcknowledgements; Part 2 Tyranny of text; 4. Unpacking Australian prehistory; Unpacking our library, unpacking our thinking; Approaching the past: a concern with prejudice; Prehistory; Symbolic ways of Being: hunting and gathering versus agriculture; Materiality of subsistence practices; Definitions; Symbolic meanings; Continuing Lourandos' project; Acknowledgements; Note; 5. Hierarchies of knowledge and the tyranny of text: archaeology, ethnohistory and oral traditions in Australian archaeological interpretation 327 $aIntroductionThe construction of scientific evidence; Historicising the Whitsunday's past; The historical record; Norman B Tindale; Walter E Roth; The archaeological record; Discussion; An integrative model?; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; 6. Colonial diffusionism and the archaeology of external influences on Aboriginal culture; Introduction; Changing relevancy of an 'unresolved debate'; Colonial diffusionism; External influences and small tools; External influences, small tools and the dingo; External influences and intensification; External influences, the dingo and Torres Strait 327 $aAcknowledgements7. Harry Lourandos, the 'Great Intensification Debate', and the representation of Indigenous pasts; 'Intensification' revisited; Will the 'real' intensification please step forward?; The 'Great Intensification Debate'; Outcomes; Reactions; Revisions; Discussion: the politics and poetics of an archaeological debate; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Part 3 Anthropological approaches; 8. Footprints of the ancestors: the convergence of anthropological and archaeological perspectives in contemporary Aboriginal heritage studies; Introduction: archaeology contra anthropology 327 $aThe material dimension of Aboriginal social lifeCultural continuity; Interpreting actions on Country; Aboriginal interpretations of artefactual remains; Birthplace; Burial sites; Footprints; Massacre sites; Case 1: Waanyi and Gangalidda, Gulf of Carpentaria; Case 2: Ghungalu and Kangoulu, central Queensland; Discussion; Acknowledgements; Notes; 9. Earth, wind, fire and water: the social and spiritual construction of water in Aboriginal societies; Introduction; Water; The people and environments of Princess Charlotte Bay; Aboriginal ontologies of waterscapes 327 $aTwo sacred stories: water forms, ancestral beings and places 330 $aRevealing the ancient past of Aboriginal Australians to be one of longterm changes in social relationships and traditions?as well as in the active management and manipulation of the environment?this account encourages a deeper appreciation of the ways Aboriginal peoples have engaged with and constructed their worlds. 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