Dr Jan Critchett is Associate Professor of Australian Studies at Deakin University. She is the author of A Distant Field of Murder (MUP 1990), for which she won the Fellowship of Australian Writers' Local History Award in 1991.
Add To Bag
$54.99
- Formats
- Share
- Published 31-10-1988
- ISBN 9780522845273
- Pages 330
- Subjects Anthropology
- Imprint MUP POD
A Distant Field Of Murder
Western District Frontiers 1834–1848
Add To Bag
$54.99
- Formats
- Share
- Published 31-10-1988
- ISBN 9780522845273
- Pages 330
- Subjects Anthropology
- Imprint MUP POD
A unique study of early Aboriginal-white relations in the Western District of Victoria
Jan Critchett challenges some of strongly held opinions about Aboriginal culture: that their only shelters were frail mia-mias, that they were nomadic and had no attachment to a particular area of land, and that they were simple hunters and gatherers. With a particular focus on the Western District of Victoria, known under the Squatting Act as Portland Bay, Critchett begins and ends the book with the story of Hissing Swan or Kaawirn Kuunawarn.
More Great Books
The Rise of the Matildas
Fiona Crawford
PAPERBACK..... $34.99
ISBN: 9780522880779
Justice and Hope
Raimond Gaita
PAPERBACK..... $39.99
ISBN: 9780522880731
The Matilda Effect
Fiona Crawford
PAPERBACK..... $35.00
ISBN: 9780522878004
Fishing in the Good Old Days
Bob Kearney
PAPERBACK..... $44.99
ISBN: 9780522878349
Collingwood
Paul Daley
PAPERBACK..... $46.99
ISBN: 9780522858808