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Fire and hearth, Karla Yoorda : a study of Aboriginal usage and European usurpation in south-western Australia, Sylvia J. Hallam

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Fire and hearth

Sylvia J. Hallam

Karla Yoorda : a study of Aboriginal usage and European usurpation in south-western Australia

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 AO CMG. This revised edition has been produced in the light of considerable new interest in this subject, and to introduce this work of deep scholarship to a new readership. The cover image is taken from Lieutenant Robert Dale's Panoramic View of King George's Sound and Adjacent Country, 1834. '"The land the English settled was not as God made it. It was as the Aborigines made it." Such is the challenging claim which opens Sylvia Hallam's majestic pioneer memoir on the interconnections between Aboriginal society, Country and the varied applications of deliberate firing

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Karla Yoorda, a study of Aboriginal usage and European usurpation in south-western AustraliaStudy of Aboriginal usage and European usurpation in south-western Australia