Deep history : country and sovereignty / edited by Ann McGrath and Jackie Huggins.
| Other author | Huggins, Jackie, editor. |
| Other author | McGrath, Ann, 1956- editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Sydney, NSW : UNSW Press, 2025. |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Deep history and deep sovereignty: an introduction / Ann McGrath -- Part I: Is decolonising history possible? Sovereignty and national education. 1. Walking on sovereign territory: Carnarvon Gorge / Jackie Huggins -- 2. Good timing? Australian history's changing temporality / Anna Clark -- 3. Deep Time history goes to school: how the new Australian curriculum is learning from the past / Beth Marsden -- Part Il: Archaeology, science and sovereign histories. 4. Archaeology and Aboriginal sovereignty / Martin Porr -- 5. Difficult temporalities: Indigenous and Western archaeological ways of knowing the past in Oceania / Chris Urwin and Lynette Russell -- 6. Songs, stories and Deep Histories from Mutthi Mutthi, Ngiyampaa, Barkindji and Tati Tati Water Country / Grace Fletcher -- Part Ill: The sovereignty of sustaining landscapes and foodscapes. 7. Kai Mαori spaces and temporalities in Tαmaki Makaurau / Bhavee/ea Madagammana -- 8. For the common good: Local sovereignty and ra'ui in the Cook Islands / Bronwen Neil, Antony Vavia and Tom Murray -- Part IV: History on the rocks / Laura Rademaker, Sally K May, Joakim Goldbahn and Gabriel Maralngurra -- 10. Language has country: memory, transmission and sovereignty in Tara June Winch's The Yield / Rosanne Kennedy and Ben Silverstein -- 11. A place for a stranger: the Wardandi history of Thomas Timotȟe Vasse / Mary Blight -- Part V: Walking as a practice of sovereignty. 12. Murrudha: sovereign walks: tracking cultural actions through art, country, language and music. |
| Abstract | What is deep history? How do histories make sovereignty on Country? What is history's future? For Aboriginal people, the past is the present. Competing histories form and transform the lands, peoples and nations of Oceania, from the Pacific Islands, New Guinea and Aotearoa/New Zealand to Australia. In nations impacted by colonialism, such questions are particularly pertinent. First Nations peoples have long made history, living on their Country far longer than the colonial invaders.In Deep History: Country and Sovereignty, edited by Ann McGrath and Jackie Huggins, leading historians and thinkers explore Indigenous histories of caring for places and people over millennia. With contributions from Brenda L. Croft, Anna Clark, Lynette Russell and many more, Deep History considers how stories of the past and the future are inscribed on land, waterways and skies. Walking on Country, gardening and agriculture and rock art are historical practices that continue to play an important role in asserting sovereign rights. While colonial powers crafted historical narratives of entitlement, First Nations people continue to perform deep histories of sovereignty. Deep History offers readers an invitation to walk the Country, to see how it reveals the most crucial of all histories for the planet. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographic references and index. |
| ISBN | 9781761170300 |
| ISBN | 1761170309 paperback |
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