| Description |
1 online resource (212 pages). |
| Series |
Aboriginal history monographs |
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Aboriginal history monograph series.
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| Contents |
1. Brokering in colonial exploration: Biographies, geographies and histories -- 2. Bennelong and Gogy: Strategic brokers in colonial New South Wales -- 3. 'Race', intimacy and go-betweens in French-West Papuan encounters -- 4. Aboriginal guides in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales -- 5. Guided by her: Aboriginal women's participation in Australian expeditions -- 6. Bobby Roberts: Intermediary and outlaw of Western Australia's south coast -- 7. Mediating the imaginary and the space of encounter in the Papuan Gulf -- 8. Local agency and William MacGregor's exploration of the Trobriand Islands -- 9. Explorers and co. in interior New Guine, 1872-1928. |
| Summary |
Colonial exploration continues, all too often, to be rendered as heroic narratives of solitary, intrepid explorers and adventurers. This edited collection contributes to scholarship that is challenging that persistent mythology. With a focus on Indigenous brokers, such as guides, assistants and mediators, it highlights the ways in which nineteenth-century exploration in Australia and New Guinea was a collective and socially complex enterprise. Many of the authors provide biographically rich studies that carefully examine and speculate about Indigenous brokers' motivations, commitments and desires. All of the chapters in the collection are attentive to the specific local circumstances as well as broader colonial contexts in which exploration and encounters occurred. |
| Subject |
First contact (Anthropology) -- Australia.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Biography.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions.
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Discoveries in geography -- 19th century.
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Australia -- Discovery and exploration.
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Aboriginal Australians. (OCoLC)fst00794496
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Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions.
(OCoLC)fst00794561
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Discoveries in geography. (OCoLC)fst00894950
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First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners. (OCoLC)fst00925765
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Australia. (OCoLC)fst01204543
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1899
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| Indexed Term |
Australian |
| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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| Added Author |
Shellam, Tiffany Sophie Bryden, 1979- editor.
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Nugent, Maria, editor.
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Konishi, Shino, editor.
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Cadzow, Allison, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781760460129 (electronic bk.) |
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1760460125 (electronic bk.) |
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