Brokers and boundaries : colonial exploration in Indigenous territory /

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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 medi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Shellam, Tiffany, 1979- (Editor ), Nugent, Maria (Editor ), Konishi, Shino (Editor ), Cadzow, Allison (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Acton, A.C.T. : ANU Press, 2016.
Colección:Aboriginal history monograph series.
Temas:
1800-1899
First contact (Anthropology) > Australia.
Aboriginal Australians > Biography.
Aboriginal Australians > Social conditions.
Discoveries in geography > 19th century.
Premiers contacts (Anthropologie) > Australie.
Australiens (Aborigènes) > Biographies.
Découvertes géographiques > 19e siècle.
Australasia, Oceania and other land areas.
Australasia.
Australasian and Pacific history.
Australia.
Colonialism and imperialism.
Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning.
Ethnic studies.
Geographical discovery and exploration.
Geography.
History.
History: specific events and topics.
Humanities.
Indigenous peoples.
Regional and national history.
Social groups.
Society and culture: general.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Political Science / Colonialism & Post-colonialism.
History / Australia & New Zealand.
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies.
Aboriginal Australians
Aboriginal Australians > Social conditions
Discoveries in geography
First contact (Anthropology)
Australia > Discovery and exploration.
Australie > Découverte et exploration.
Australia
Australian
Biographies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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