Hunters and collectors : the antiquarian imagination in Australia / Tom Griffiths
- Bib ID:
- 2490792
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Griffiths, Tom, 1957-
- Description:
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- Cambridge ; Melbourne : Cambridge University Press, 1996
- xiv, 416 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0521483492 (paperback)
- 052148281X
- Series:
- Studies in Australian history.
- Summary:
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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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliography: (p. 363-402) and index.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities -- Collectors and collecting
- Aboriginal Australians -- Historiography
- Antiquarians -- Australia -- Biography
- Collectors and collecting -- Australia
- Scientists -- Australia -- Biography
- Cultural heritage - Protection - Museums and keeping places - Conservation
- Technology - Stone
- Cultural heritage - Protection - Museums and keeping places - Collections and acquisitions
- Dating and chronology - Carbon dating
- Australia -- Historiography
- Victoria (Vic)
- Copyright:
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1996
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