Australian non-fiction book about Indigenous Australian history
For the extinct animal subspecies, see King Island emu.
Dark Emu: Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident?
Author
Bruce Pascoe
Language
English
Genre
Non-fiction History
Publication date
2014
Publication place
Australia
ISBN
1921248017
Dark Emu: Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident? is a 2014 non-fiction book by Bruce Pascoe. It re-examines colonial accounts of Aboriginal people in Australia, and cites evidence of pre-colonial agriculture, engineering and building construction by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. A second edition, published under the title Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture was published in mid-2018, and a version of the book for younger readers, entitled Young Dark Emu: A Truer History, was published in 2019.
Both the first and the children's editions were shortlisted for major awards, and the former won two awards in the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. The book has also proved very popular with the Australian public, selling 250,000 copies by mid-2021. Its strengths have been said to lie in the storytelling style, making it more accessible to the general reader than the more scholarly examinations of Aboriginal history in the past.
The accuracy of Dark Emu has been debated in the Australian media and political spheres, and a number of academics have criticised Pascoe's thesis that Indigenous Australian society was based to such a large extent on sedentary agriculture rather than hunting and gathering. It has, however, been welcomed as a contribution to further investigations into Indigenous history.
DarkEmu: Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident? is a 2014 non-fiction book by Bruce Pascoe. It re-examines colonial accounts of Aboriginal people in Australia...
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Sydney, 1984, ISBN 0-00-217315-8 Keen, Ian (2021). "Foragers or farmers: DarkEmu and the controversy over Aboriginal agriculture" (PDF). Anthropological...
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