Hunters and Collectors :The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia - Studies in Australian History

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Hunters and Collectors

Hunters and Collectors :The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia - Studies in Australian History

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Hunters and Collectors is about historical consciousness and environmental sensibilities in European Australia from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. It is in part a collective biography of amateur antiquarians, archaeologists, naturalists, journalists and historians: people who shaped the Australian historical imagination. Dr Griffiths illuminates the way these avid collectors and investigators of the Australian land and of its indigenous inhabitants contributed a sense of identity at colony-wide and eventually nationwide level. He also considers the rise of professional history, anthropology and archaeology in the universities, which ignored the efforts of the amateurs. Griffiths shows how the seemingly trivial activities of these hunters and collectors feed into the political and environmental debates of the 1990s. This book is outstanding in its originality, interpretative insight and literary flair.
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Winner of Ernest Scott Prize for History 1997

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Type Book
ISBN13 9780521483490
ISBN10 0521483492
Number Of Pages 432
Item Weight 630 g
Product Dimensions 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Publisher / Reseller Cambridge University Press
Format paperback
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Review of the hardback: '… Griffiths breaks some fascinating ground in this thought provoking and engaging study of private Australian collectors …' The Australian
Review of the hardback: '… is a challenging, imaginative study of the politics and processes that continue to shape our history. While aimed at a specialist audience, the writing is lucid enough to appeal to the general reader'. The Bulletin

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