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Indigenous intermediaries : new perspectives on exploration archives /

This edited collection understands exploration as a collective effort and experience involving a variety of people in diverse kinds of relationships. It engages with the recent resurgence of interest in the history of exploration by focusing on the various Indigenous intermediaries - Jacky Jacky, Bu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Konishi, Shino (Editor ), Nugent, Maria (Editor ), Shellam, Tiffany, 1979- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Acton, A.C.T. : ANU Press, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Preface; 1. Exploration archives and Indigenous histories: An introduction; 2. Intermediaries and the archive of exploration; 3. Explorer memory and Aboriginal celebrity; 4. Jacky Jacky and the politics of Aboriginal testimony; 5. Mediating encounters through bodies and talk; 6. Agency, affect, and local knowledge in the exploration of Oceania; 7. Cross-cultural knowledge exchange in the age of the Enlightenment; 8. British-Tahitian collaborative drawing strategies on Cook's Endeavour voyage.