Australia's secret pygmy people

[mellie]

The extinction of the Australian pygmies

From the 1940s until the 1960s, it was fairly widely known there were pygmies in Australia. They lived in North Queensland and had come in from the wild of the tropical rainforests to live on missions in the region.

No one today with a lay interest in Aboriginal anthropology, and few of those doing introductory courses in the subject, would ever find out that Australia had a pygmy people. What, then, has been going on? Why would these people have been expunged from popular memory? How did the Australian pygmies become extinct within the public consciousness?


http://quadrant.org.au/wp-content/uploa ... sell-2.jpg


There have been two main reasons. We explain them in detail below but, briefly, they were: first, a vitriolic debate within the academic discipline of anthropology in which the view prevailed that there was nothing remarkable about these people; second, the emergence in the 1960s of the radical Aboriginal political movement, which found the existence of a pygmy people an inconvenient counter-example to one of its central doctrines. As a result, these indigenous Australians have been subject to an airbrushing from history that makes even that of the old Bolshevik leadership of the USSR in the 1930s look mild by comparison.

https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/history ... n-pygmies/


Today's politically vocal Indigenous Australians would rather we forgot all about the pygmies, can any of you figure out why this might be?

[mozzaok]

Today's politically vocal Indigenous Australians would rather we forgot all about the pygmies, can any of you figure out why this might be?

How can this be when Bill Shorten is reminding Australia every day

[mellie]

Today's politically vocal Indigenous Australians would rather we forgot all about the pygmies, can any of you figure out why this might be?

How can this be when Bill Shorten is reminding Australia every day

No, you are confusing the pygmy people with dwarves.

[Rorschach]

Today's politically vocal Indigenous Australians would rather we forgot all about the pygmies, can any of you figure out why this might be?

How can this be when Bill Shorten is reminding Australia every day

Are you having a shot at Shortens look Mozz? Oh dear.
This is old news mel... as for the so-called first Australians... what happened to mungo man as well.

[freediver]

Has this been posted here before?

The photo appears to be nothing more than a short aborigine beside a tall white man.

[Black Orchid]

It looks like a kid to me

[mellie]

These look like kids also?




Bit saggy for kids, yeah?





I think Rolf Harris might have got to them.....perhaps that's why they're now extinct?


....all together now...

[freediver]

Chinese people used to look like that. Then they got their hands on some more food.

[mellie]

Chinese people used to look like that. Then they got their hands on some more food.

I'm not so sure about that Freediver.... plenty of Australian (and Indigenous hystorians) seem to be of the same mind ... re--- what happened to our Australian pygmies.

Well....
>>>>
.....If not Rolph... then who?


Or were they never truly Australian to begin with?

Ie.... They came from say... SE Asia or Africa?



This would make sense ...re- blood group typing.

[mellie]

Then could the same be said for the rest of Australia's not so Indigenous ... Well...Apparently Indigenous?



The tits don't lie Freediver... they look pretty well full grown to me.