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BL
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997131
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b751501
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Horton, David,1945-
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| Title & Author
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The pure state of nature : : sacred cows, destructive myths and the environment /\ David Horton.
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| Publication Statement
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St. Leonards, NSW :: Allen & Unwin,, 2000.
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xiii, 192 pages ;; 22 cm
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| ISBN
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1865081078
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: 9781865081076
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-185) and index.
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| Contents
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1. 'Paved with good intentions': Theories on Aborigines and the environment -- 2. 'An unchanging people in an unchanging land': Archaeology and the past -- 3. 'A slow strangulation of the mind?': Eating fish is wrong -- 4. 'A people so inclined': To farm or not to farm -- 5. 'Opened up a landscape': Firestick farming and the control burners -- 6. 'The extinction of such pachyderms': The great megafauna debate -- 7. 'Most enlightened conservationists' -- 8. Convict's dilemma -- 9. Ghosts -- 10. Theses nailed to the door.
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"Spanning fifty thousand years and an entire continent, The Pure State of Nature presents a passionate account of the Australian environment. The myths that abound in popular and scientific writing, the 'theories' and fancies about the place of humans in the ecology of this vast land mass, are subjected to scrutiny. In particular, the author demolishes the widely accepted orthodoxy about the use of fire by Aborigines and their supposed part in the extinction of the Australian megafauna."--Jacket.
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Aboriginal Australians-- History.
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Aboriginal Australians-- Social life and customs.
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Human ecology-- Australia-- History.
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Land settlement-- Australia-- History.
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Land use-- Australia-- History.
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Nature-- Effect of human beings on-- Australia-- History.
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Aboriginal Australians-- History.
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Aboriginal Australians-- Social life and customs.
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Aboriginal Australians-- Social life and customs.
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Aboriginal Australians.
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Animals-- Mammals-- Marsupial megafauna.
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Ceremonies.
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Culture-- Relationship to land.
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Environment-- Biodiversity.
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Environment-- Conservation.
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Environment-- Land management-- Fire.
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Environment-- Land management.
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Environment.
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Human ecology-- Australia-- History.
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Human ecology.
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Indigenous knowledge-- Ecology.
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Indigenous knowledge-- World view.
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Land settlement-- Australia-- History.
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Land settlement.
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Land use-- Australia-- History.
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Land use.
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Nature-- Effect of human beings on-- Australia-- History.
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Nature-- Effect of human beings on.
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Naturverständnis
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Palawa-- Tasmanian people (Tas.)
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Religion-- Totemism.
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Subsistence and economy.
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Technology.
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Aborigines.
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Arnhem Land (NT)
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Australia.
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Tasmania (Tas.)
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| Dewey Classification
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304.2/0994
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304.280994
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| LC Classification
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GF801.H67 2000
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