Deep History
Country and Sovereignty
$51.28
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2025
Summary
What is deep history? How do histories make sovereignty on Country? What is history’s future?
For Aboriginal people, the past is the present. Competing histories form and transform the lands, peoples and nations of Oceania, from the Pacific Islands, New Guinea and Aotearoa/New Zealand to Australia. In nations impacted by colonialism, such questions are particularly pertinent. First Nations peoples have long made history, living on their Country far longer than the col…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761170300 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1761170309 |
| Author: | Ann McGrath, Jackie Huggins |
| Publisher: | NewSouth Publishing |
| Imprint: | NewSouth Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 400g |
| Dimensions: | 39mm x 155mm x 234mm |
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Ann McGrath
Ann McGrath AM, the WK Hancock Chair at the Australian National University, has for the past seven years led a Laureate Program which, along with Indigenous knowledge holders, collaboratively explores the meanings of deep history. She has published various prize-winning books and held prestigious international fellowships, including at Princeton and the Rockefeller Centre, Bellagio.
Jackie Huggins is a Bidjara Elder of the Carnarvon Gorge area of Central Queensland, and the recipient of knowledge passed on by her last surviving cultural knowledge holder Uncle Frederick Conway from Rockhampton. She has worked in Aboriginal affairs for over four decades in community, government and non-government in areas of reconciliation, social justice and women’s issues. An historian and author she is currently Professor, Director of Indigenous Research, School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Herston campus. She is author of Sister Girl: Reflections on Tiddaism, Identity and Reconciliation (2022).
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