Not agriculturalistsĪs Sutton attests, seeds were and are occasionally deliberately scattered. This complexity was, and in many cases, still is, underpinned by high levels of spiritual/cultural belief. In their book, they assert there was and is nothing “simple” or “primitive” about hunter-gatherer-fishers’ labour practices. They strongly repudiate racist notions of Aboriginal hunter-gatherers as living in a primitive state. On the basis of long-term research and observation, Sutton and Walshe portray classical Australian Aboriginal people as highly successful hunter-gatherers and fishers. But this willingness to accept Pascoe’s argument reveals a systemic area of failure in the Australian education system. It has led to converts to Pascoe’s dubious proposition. This proselytising is partly achieved by painstaking “massaging” of his sources, a practice forensically examined by Walshe and Sutton. Underpinning Dark Emu is the author’s rhetorical purpose.
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