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How the Dark Emu debate limits representation of Aboriginal people in Australia

  • Written by Heidi Norman, Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
How the Dark Emu debate limits representation of Aboriginal people in AustraliaRanger David Wongway on Angas Downs, Northern Territory.Wikimedia Commons/JennyKS, CC BY-SA

Anthropologist Peter Sutton and archaeologist Keryn Walshe, recently published a book titled Farmers or Hunter-gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate. This book offers a dramatically different account of the social, spiritual and economic worlds of Australia’s...

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