Practicing Primitive A Handbook of Aboriginal Skills

Name: Practicing Primitive A Handbook of Aboriginal Skills
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ISBN: 9781586852993

ISBN-10: 158685299X

ISBN-13: 9781586852993

Edition: 2005

Authors: Steven Watts

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Practicing Primitive: A Handbook of Aboriginal Skills is a collection of information and images put together over a twenty-year period in a search for hands-on communication with our shared Stone Age past. The story of the Stone Age is our story, and primitive technology is a way for anyone who wants to understand that shared history. Watts makes the case that the learning and practice of aboriginal skills helps us connect with our remote past, encourages us to participate in the shared inheritance of primitive ('first') skills. Practicing Primitive includes detailed instructions on how to make or perform over 65 Stone Age objects or skills, covering primitive basics such as making axes and…

Book details

List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Gibbs Smith, Publisher
Publication date: 3/11/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 8.50" wide x 11.00" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Acknowledments


Pre Face Our Ancestors...Ourselves


The Stone Age Edge Sheltered In Prehistory By the Hearth Woven Through Time To Hunt and To Fish


The Aboriginal Arts


Applied Primitive Skills


After Word


About the Author


The Society of Primitive Technology Schiele Museum


Aboriginal Studies Program