Graduation Year

2010

Document Type

Open Access Senior Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts

Department

Studio Art

Second Department

Environmental Analysis

Reader 1

Nancy Macko

Reader 2

Donald McFarlane

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© 2010 Lauren Orme

Abstract

Not Empty is a two- part exploration of the relationship between humans and nature. In this essay I intend to discuss the relationship Australian Aboriginal peoples have with their environment. Their many cultures are among the oldest surviving civilizations on the planet, and their natural history is rich and complex. I plan to compare the relationship Australian Aboriginal cultures have to their environment to that of a Western civilization, specifically the United States. Neither relationship is perfect, nor is one of them 'better.' Both have histories riddled with extinction, evolution, and the conquest of new lands. The struggle Aboriginal Australians experienced when first settling their new land is concurrent to the degradation occurring today by Western cultures, with some differences, including scale and speed.

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Previously linked to as: http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/stc,91

OCLC number: 639456205

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