COLLECTING AUSTRALIANA Aboriginal

Biographical sketches of amateur scientists and humanists and their influence on popular perceptions of nature and the past; rise of the heritage movement; restoration of Aboriginal sites and artefacts; changing role of museums; environmental conflicts; includes accounts of the collecting of Aboriginal remains and artefacts; stone tools; radiocarbon dating; concept of wilderness; archaeologists; historians; cultural history; institutionalisation of the past; perceptions of Aboriginal peoples and culture.

• xiv, 416 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm. First Edition. #310824 (Review copy label on fep)
• Cultural heritage – Protection – Museums and keeping places – Conservation
• Technology – Stone
• Cultural heritage – Protection – Museums and keeping places – Collections and acquisitions
• Dating and chronology – Carbon dating
• Victoria (Vic)
• Aboriginal Australians — Antiquities — Collectors and collecting
• Aboriginal Australians — Historiography
• Antiquarians — Australia — Biography
• Collectors and collecting — Australia
• Scientists — Australia — Biography
• Australia — Historiography