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Book review: Farmers or Hunter-gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate rigorously critiques Bruce Pascoe's argument : Comments
By Christine Nicholls, published 15/6/2021For many Australians, Pascoe's book is a 'must-read', speaking truth to power. For such readers, Dark Emu seems a breakthrough text. Not so, in Sutton and Walshe's estimation. Nor mine.
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Some of my ancestors were Tasmanian aborigines. And the stories told me from Grandma's knee, told a very different story of survival of the original inhabitants. So, much of what's claimed by the (semi-white) historical revisionists is humbug?
It's a whitewash (oops, Blackwash) that excludes the violent tribal wars, the wife hunting, the normalised degree of domestic abuse, the widespread sexual abuse of minors, the colour coded infanticide, and vicious head hunting cannibalism and the homosexual orgies dressed up as secret men's business/initiation ceremonies.
Alan B.