The ‘Primitive’ Landscape: Country, Colonialism & Culture

"... Australia's Aborigines have a ‘special relationship with the land', Like most 'primitive' cultures this relationship is symbiotic and requires a particular ideology to sustain it. Compared to the idea of material development and consumerism dominant in western culture this older ideology was, during the modern era of European history, seen as inferior and naive. This lecture will illustrate the complexity and sophistication practised by Palaeolithic and Neolithic cultures; especially in the set of relations associated with the landscape” Goddard, J. (1999 p. 3)