by CareEditor | Nov 4, 2020 | The Launceston Basin
Does this amount to ‘farming’ or ‘agriculture’? The work of Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu argues for a substantial shift in language from ‘hunter-gatherer’ to terms like ‘farming’ and ‘agriculture’. Certainly, Indigenous land use has suffered the suggestion of ‘savage’ and...
by CareEditor | Nov 4, 2020 | Envisaging Landscape
Is there evidence today of the landscape of the First People? Actually, there is a lot of evidence if we know how to “read” landscape though intense modification of the Launceston basin makes that more difficult at that location. This scene from the northeast seems...
by CareEditor | Nov 4, 2020 | Envisaging Landscape
What does past practice mean in the present? The substantial alteration to the landscape by First Peoples does not give permission for us to treat the present landscape as a blank slate to be scribbled on. White intrusion interrupted Indigenous landscape maintenance...
by CareEditor | Nov 4, 2020 | Envisaging Landscape
What would the place have looked like without those First People gathered on the shore? If you had sailed up the Kunermulukerker, the Tamar, in the wake of the first British interlopers what would the landscape have looked like WITHOUT First People presence and...
by CareEditor | Oct 9, 2020 | Envisaging Landscape
Why multiple names for the river? Many languages use generic names with adjectival qualifiers e.g “Grey Kangaroo” where “Kangaroo” is the basic word for the animal and “grey” is an adjectival qualifier that broadens our understanding of the basic generic word....
