Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 [Review Essay] Aboriginal Dreaming Paths and Trading Routes : The Colonisation of the Australian Economic Landscape
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'Dale Kerwin has transformed his doctoral thesis into an impressive book, with an enticing title and cover. The ‘paths’ and ‘routes’ in the title refer to the vast, complex and well-used network of pathways that covered this country before Europeans arrived. This book looks at the nature of this network, its rich array of associated infrastructure, both cultural and spiritual, and the way in which it was co-opted by Europeans to take control of the Australian continent from the late eighteenth century onwards. As the series editor David Cahill notes in his preface, this is an ‘emic’ study — an ‘insider’s’ view. Thus the author, an Aboriginal scholar, brings to this study not only his voice but also the knowledge and understanding of a number of Aboriginal Elders across the continent. The six chapters are well illustrated with black and white maps, photographs and drawings, for which the front listings contain informative extra notes. There is a solid reference list and a sufficient index, a feature that is a helpful addition to the original thesis. Several of the chapter titles I found to be most intriguing and inviting.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Australian Aboriginal Studies no. 2 2012 7596689 2012 periodical issue

    'Welcome to the second volume of Australian Aboriginal Studies for 2012. This non-thematic edition includes several papers profiling gambling behaviour and how to measure problem gambling among Indigenous people. This is an area where there has been limited published research and we are pleased to be able to provide a forum for this area of study.'   (Editorial introduction)

    2012
    pg. 101-103
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