National Museum of Australia – Audio on demand program – From Fish Creek to the Mann River: Hunter-gatherer transformations in western Arnhem Land, 1948

From Fish Creek to the Mann River: Hunter-gatherer transformations in western Arnhem Land, 1948–2008

Professor Jon Altman, Australian National University

Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium, 19 November 2009

Jon Altman describes transformations in the customary economy of Aboriginal people in western Arnhem Land over 60 years – a comparative analysis made possible because of research undertaken by Frederick McCarthy and Margaret McArthur in 1948.