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Unearthed
The Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island
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Artikel-Nr:
9781862547988
Veröffentl:
2019
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
15.05.2019
Seiten:
402
Autor:
Rebe Taylor
Gewicht:
608 g
Format:
234x156x22 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Dr Rebe Taylor is a historian specialising in Tasmanian anthropology and archaeology. She first encountered Tasmanian Aboriginal history on a beach on Kangaroo Island, South Australia, hearing stories about the women who had been taken there by sealers. She has been trying to understand the history of Tasmanian Aboriginal diaspora, loss, rediscovery and endurance ever since.
It is relatively well known that the Palawa community of Tasmania is mostly descended from the Aboriginal Tasmanian women who sealers took to the Bass Strait Islands in the early nineteenth century. But few people know that sealers also took Tasmanian women to Kangaroo Island, establishing a cross-cultural community before the settlement of South Australia. Aboriginal Tasmanian descendants are still living on Kangaroo Island today and this book is their story. Beginning in the sealing days, it tells how they became successful farmers, but how many grew up unaware of their Aboriginal ancestry, and are still struggling to face questions of identity today.