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