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Bruce Pascoe

    Bruce Pascoe's schrijven duikt diep in de rijke geschiedenis en cultuur van Australië, met een bijzondere focus op het ontdekken van de vaak over het hoofd geziene verhalen van de inheemse bevolking. Zijn werk belicht de complexe samenlevingen en verfijnde landbeheerpraktijken die al millennia in Australië bestonden, en daagt conventionele historische verslagen uit. Door zijn literaire bijdragen streeft Pascoe ernaar om een dieper begrip en respect te kweken voor de inheemse Australische tradities en kennisssystemen. Zijn schrijven fungeert als een vitale brug, die verleden en heden verbindt en een genuanceerder perspectief biedt op de Australische identiteit.

    The Little Red Yellow Black Book
    Night Animals
    Dark Emu
    • Dark Emu

      • 240bladzijden
      • 9 uur lezen

      History has portrayed Australia's First Peoples, the Aboriginals, as hunter-gatherers who lived on an empty, uncultivated land. History is wrong. In this seminal book, Bruce Pascoe uncovers evidence that long before the arrival of white men, Aboriginal people across the continent were building dams and wells; planting, irrigating, and harvesting seeds, and then preserving the surplus and storing it in houses, sheds, or secure vessels; and creating elaborate cemeteries and manipulating the landscape. All of these behaviors were inconsistent with the hunter-gatherer tag, which turns out have been a convenient lie that worked to justify dispossession. Using compelling evidence from the records and diaries of early Australian explorers and colonists, he reveals that Aboriginal systems of food production and land management have been blatantly understated in modern retellings of early Aboriginal history, and that a new look at Australia's past is required -- for the benefit of all Australians. Dark Emu, a bestseller in Australia, won both the Book of the Year Award and the Indigenous Writer's Prize in the 2016 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.

      Dark Emu2018
      4,2
    • The Little Red Yellow Black Book

      An Introduction to Indigenous Australia

      • 139bladzijden
      • 5 uur lezen

      An in-depth introduction to Australia’s rich, indigenous culture, this pocket-sized guide is an invaluable resource for learning about the 60,000-year-old history of the country. Containing everything from history and rarely seen photographs to information on traveling respectfully, the content is written by indigenous people and follows their cultural protocols and ethics. Presented in a nonchronological approach, the guide is ultimately less a mere reference and more a story of identity and continuity.

      The Little Red Yellow Black Book2008
      4,1
    • Anthology of short stories ; includes "Black velvet night" (pp.9-12)

      Night Animals1986
      4,0