Dr Rebecca Hamilton

Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History,

Sciences & Technology

Indigenous knowledge and the myth of ‘wilderness’

Aboriginal ideas of ‘wilderness’ are in contrast to romantic views of a ‘pristine’ environment. But it actively excludes Indigenous and local people from conservation

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