Bruce Pascoe
Autor de Dark Emu
Sobre El Autor
Bruce Pascoe was born in 1947 in Melbourne, Australia. He is an Indigenous writer. His latest books include Fog a Dox (winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Awards in 2013), Convincing Ground, Dark Emu, and Mrs Whitlam. He received the 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Indigenous Writers Prize, mostrar más Joint Winner. In 2018, he won the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. It acknowledges prominent literary writers over 60 who have made outstanding and lifelong contribution to Australian literature. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Series
Obras de Bruce Pascoe
Aboriginal Short Stories 4 copias
Australian Short Stories No 36 3 copias
Australian Short Stories No. 14 3 copias
Australian Short Stories No 33 2 copias
Australian Short Stories, No. 43 2 copias
Australian Short Stories - No 11 2 copias
Australian Short Stories No 21 2 copias
Black Duck 2 copias
Australian Short Stories N0 61 2 copias
Australian Short Stories 48 2 copias
Black Duck, A Year At Yumburra 2 copias
Australian Short Stories No 49 2 copias
Wathaurong : too bloody strong : stories and life journeys of people from Wathaurong (1997) 2 copias
Australian Short Stories No 28 2 copias
Australian Short Stories Vol 1 No 3 2 copias
Australian Short Stories No 15 2 copias
Australian Short Stories No 10 2 copias
Australian Short Stories No 7 1 copia
Australian Short Stories No. 8 1 copia
Australian Short Stories No. 37 1 copia
Australian Short Stories No. 34 1 copia
Australian Short Stories No. 16 1 copia
Australian Short Stories No. 12 1 copia
Australian Short Stories No 38 1 copia
Australian Short Stories No. 9 1 copia
Australian Short Stories: The Collector's Edition of Mid-Life Vices No. 19 (1987) — Editor — 1 copia
Australian Short Stories No. 20 1 copia
Australian Short Stories, No. 40 1 copia
Australian Short Stories No 26 1 copia
Australian Short Stories No. 23 1 copia
Australian Short Stories No 22 1 copia
Australian Short Stories No 25 1 copia
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- Pascoe, Bruce
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1947
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- male
- Nacionalidad
- Australia
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Richmond, Victoria, Australia
- Lugares de residencia
- King Island, Tasmania, Australia (early years)
Mornington, Victoria, Australia (1957)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Shepparton, Victoria, Australia (teacher)
Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia (teacher for nine years)
Mallacoota, Victoria, Australia - Educación
- University High School, Melbourne
Melbourne University
Melbourne State College (BEd) - Ocupaciones
- teacher
language researcher
farmer
fisherman
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"Arguing over whether the Aboriginal economy was a hunter-gatherer system or one of burgeoning agriculture is not the central issue. The crucial point is that we have never discussed it as a nation. The belief that Aboriginal people were 'mere' hunter gatherers has been used as a political tool to justify disposession."
Pascoe outlines the anthropological, geographical, and anecdotal evidence for Aboriginal farming, trapping, house-building, clothing, fire-burning, and other interesting practices. This book is not academic, in that it primarily lists a variety of examples and claims without citing many sources, but, as Pascoe notes, this is an area where there remains great prejudice and ignorance today. The information I was taught as factual when I was a child portrays a fairly simplistic view of the Aboriginal tribes, and it's truly fascinating to gain an insight into the rich culture that existed in the country long before the white man. Pascoe sees the best possible answers, of course, and his ideology can be frustrating when it replaces more even-keeled thought. But perhaps this is better seen as a work of passionate non-fiction rather than academia. Australia has a long way to go before equality is achieved, and recognition of this sort can only help.… (más)