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Another Perspective on Colonialism Richard Broome

Food, Power & Aborigines. Another Perspective on Colonialism Richard Broome. Food Production & Worthiness. Thomas Hobbs’ views in Leviathan 1651 William Dampier on NW Coast 04/01/1688 James Cook @ Botany Bay April 1770 Links between savagery & poverty. Savagery to Noble Savagery.

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Another Perspective on Colonialism Richard Broome

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  1. Food, Power & Aborigines Another Perspective on Colonialism Richard Broome

  2. Food Production & Worthiness • Thomas Hobbs’ views in Leviathan 1651 • William Dampier on NW Coast 04/01/1688 • James Cook @ Botany Bay April 1770 • Links between savagery & poverty Food, Power , Aborigines & Colonialism Page 2

  3. Savagery to Noble Savagery Food, Power , Aborigines & Colonialism Page 3

  4. Noble Savagery is Ephemeral Food, Power , Aborigines & Colonialism Page 4

  5. Savages: Shellfish Gatherers Lowest • Shellfish noted by Dampier/Cook • Cuvier & Darwin’s contempt - why • Shellfish the lowest life-form? • Its consumption uncivilised? Food, Power , Aborigines & Colonialism Page 5

  6. The Oldest Neolithic Prejudice • Esau & Jacob • Jacob’s Blessing by Isaac • The Market & scarcity • Anthropologists’ views Food, Power , Aborigines & Colonialism Page 6

  7. Worthy Producers & Ownership • Three ideas in 18thC international law • 1 John Locke and cultivation • Genesis 1:28 • 2 Presence on the land • 3 Co-terminus rights • Cook and Possession Food, Power , Aborigines & Colonialism Page 7

  8. Rise of farming: Worthy? Or Good Luck? • The ‘Neolithic revolution’ • Or is it evolution? • Why the shift to farming? • The right conditions for plants • The right animals for domestication Food, Power , Aborigines & Colonialism Page 8

  9. Origins of Farming: Where? Why? • Fertile Crescent • 8-9,000 BP • Mediterranean climate • Hermaphrodite plants • Other Mediterranean climates • Maps from Jared Diamond, Guns Germs and Steel, 1997>>>>>>> Food, Power , Aborigines & Colonialism Page 9

  10. Fertile Crescent’s Advantages • Largest Zone • Species advantage • Plants & animals • Farm power • Rising surplus +pop. • Specialisation • Case of Chatham Is • Diagram from Jared Diamond, Guns Germs and Steel, 1997>>> Food, Power , Aborigines & Colonialism Page 10

  11. Colonialism’s ‘Usurper Complex’ • Albert Memmi Colonizer & Colonized 1965 • Two portraits • Colonized as ‘have nots’ • Hunter gatherer and scarcity • Truth or prejudice? • Farming problems Food, Power , Aborigines & Colonialism Page 11

  12. New Views of Hunter Gatherers • ‘Man the Hunter’ Seminar 1968 • Marshall Sahlins and ‘Affluence’ • 19thC evidence of Aboriginal plenty • 1948 American-Australia expedition • Nature of work for hunter gatherers • Plenty and its price: mobility & simplicity Food, Power , Aborigines & Colonialism Page 12

  13. Intensification 5,000 BP • A static society? • Fish traps of Victoria • George Robinson @ Mt William • Laurandos@Toolondo • Semi-sedentary • Why fish farming? • Gammage &Pascoe’s work Food, Power , Aborigines & Colonialism Page 13

  14. Post Invasion: ‘Coming-in’ & Food • Annette Hamilton & the ‘super waterhole’ • Parramatta Feast in early Sydney • Aboriginal responses Food, Power , Aborigines & Colonialism Page 14

  15. Aboriginal Agency & Food • In early Melbourne • European inducements • Batman’s Treaty • Protectors’ feasts • Wm Stanner’s view • Peter Read’s refinement Food, Power , Aborigines & Colonialism Page 15

  16. Agency and rations • Aboriginal views • ‘Right Behaviour’ • Coranderrk Inquiry 1881 • Debate over rations • Aboriginal power Food, Power , Aborigines & Colonialism Page 16

  17. From Agency to Dependency? • Food loss > rations • Loss of roles, power? • Some bush tucker sustains culture • A battleground still -income management of the Intervention Food, Power , Aborigines & Colonialism Page 17

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