Farmers or Hunter-gatherers?: The Dark Emu Debate by Peter Sutton & Keryn Walshe
34.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Culture
An authoritative study of pre-colonial Australia that dismantles and reframes popular narratives of First Nations land management and food production. Australians' understanding of Aboriginal society prior to the British invasion from 1788 has been transformed since the publication of Bruce Pascoe's Da ...Show more
Two Cultures, One Story by Robert Isaacs
27.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Culture
'I stood at the school gates with nothing but the clothes on my back. I had no money, no family, no home — nothing to show for the past 16 years except my cheap cardboard suitcase and a reasonable grasp of reading, writing and arithmetic … I didn't know what I was going to do next, but I knew that whate ...Show more
Design: Building on Country (First Knowledges) by Alison Page, Paul Memmott
24.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Culture | Series: First Knowledges
Aboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country. It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion. Alison Page and Paul ...Show more
Songlines: The Power and Promise (First Knowledges) by Margo Neale, Lynne Kelly
24.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Culture | Series: First Knowledges
Songlines are an archive for powerful knowledges that ensured Australia's many Indigenous cultures flourished for over 60,000 years. Much more than a navigational path in the cartographic sense, these vast and robust stores of information are encoded through song, story, dance, art and ceremony, rather ...Show more
Talking To My Country: The passionate and powerful bestselling book by critically acclaimed journalist and author of Tears of Strangers and The Queen is Dead by Stan Grant
27.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Culture
An extraordinarily powerful and personal meditation on race, culture, and identity. When Stan Grant was born in Australia in 1963, the national census classed him and his family among the country's flora and fauna. As Aboriginal Australians, their history and culture had been suppressed for centuries. A ...Show more
Noongar Bush Medicine: Medicinal Plants of the South-West of Western Australia by John Horsfall, Vivienne Hansen
34.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Culture
This practical reference guide provides, for the first time, comprehensive information on the medicinal plants that were used by Aboriginal people of the southwest of Western Australia before European settlement. This interesting and in-depth guide to how to use plants for alternative treatments and pro ...Show more
The Oldest Foods on Earth: A History of Australian Native Foods with Recipes by John Newton
29.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Culture
'This is a book about Australian food, the unique flora and fauna that nourished the Aboriginal peoples of this land for over 50 000 years. It is because European Australians have hardly ever touched these foods for over 200 years that I am writing this book.' We celebrate cultural and culinary diversit ...Show more
Australian Medicinal Plants -: A Complete Guide to Identification and Usage by Lassak E V ; McCarthy T
49.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Culture
Australian Medicinal Plants is an essential guide and invaluable resource for all those interested in herbal medicine, Aboriginal culture and Australian flora. Plants have been used for medicinal purposes since earliest recorded history and Australia's varied flora provided Aboriginal people with medici ...Show more
Growing Up Torres Strait Islander in Australia by Samantha Faulkner
32.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Culture
"My people are expert navigators, adventurers, innovators, ambassadors, teachers, storytellers, performers, strategists, chefs and advocates for change. The blood runs deep when I reflect on the past and the present and imagine what our future might look like." -Leilani Bin-Juda What makes Zenadth Kes/ ...Show more
Fire and Hearth - A Study of Aboriginal Usage and European Usurpation in South-Western Australia by Sylvia J. Hallam; John Mulvaney (Preface by)
29.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Culture
Originally published by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, this facsimile edition of Professor Sylvia J. Hallam's classic 1975 work, Fire and Hearth, includes a substantial Afterword by the author, and a Preface by Emeritus Professor John Mulvaney. The book has been produced in light of the ...Show more
Bush Tukka Guide 2nd edition by Samantha Martin
26.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Culture
In this second, refreshed edition of Samantha Martin's bestselling Bush Tukka Guide, readers will discover additional bush foods, recipes and updated information in a handy, field guide format. Known as the Bush Tukka Woman, Jaru woman Samantha was born into a long line of traditional hunters and gathe ...Show more
Reaching Through Time: Finding My Family’s Stories by Shauna Bostock
34.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Culture
The powerful story of a Bundjalung woman's journey to uncover her family history. The phone rang unexpectedly late one night. 'Guess who our white ancestors were?' chuckled Uncle Gerry. 'They were slave traders! A couple of generations of slave traders!' With this startling revelation, Shauna wanted to ...Show more