Into the heart of Tasmania : a search for human antiquity / / Rebe Taylor

• Autore: Taylor Rebe
• Pubblicazione: Melbourne : , : Melbourne University Press Digital, , 2017
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (211 pages)
• Disciplina: 994.6
• Soggetto topico: Aboriginal Tasmanians - Antiquities - Collection and preservation; Aboriginal Tasmanians - Implements - History; Aboriginal Tasmanians - Land tenure; Aboriginal Tasmanians - Languages; Ethnologists - England; Aboriginal Tasmanians - History; Aboriginal Tasmanians - Social life and customs; Anthropology - Australia - Tasmania - History; Archaeology - Australia - Tasmania - History; Archaeology; Cultural heritage
• Soggetto geografico: Tasmania History 20th century
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliography and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro; Title; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Author note; Prologue: The gift; The decision; The collector; Leaving home; The same science; Collecting stones; Collecting memories; Fanny Smith; The Islanders; Photographing stones; Such sweepings; Going home; A new order; In his wake; Below the surface; 'On our land'; Epilogue: The return; Acknowledgements; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In 1908 English gentleman Ernest Westlake packed a tent, a bicycle and forty tins of food and sailed to Tasmania. On mountains, beaches and in sheep paddocks he collected over 13,000 Aboriginal stone tools. Westlake believed he had found the remnants of an extinct race whose culture was akin to the most ancient Stone Age Europeans. But Westlake encountered living Indigenous communities and unwittingly documented what he could not perceive: an Aboriginal people with a complex culture and a deep past. --Back cover.
• ISBN: 9780522867978; 0522867979
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911123951503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II