Indigenous intermediaries : new perspectives on exploration archives /

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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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Konishi, Shino (Editor), Nugent, Maria (Editor), Shellam, Tiffany, 1979- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Acton, A.C.T. : ANU Press, 2015.
Subjects:
First contact (Anthropology) > Australia.
Aboriginal Australians > Australia.
Discoveries in geography.
Découvertes géographiques.
Premiers contacts (Anthropologie) > Australie.
General & world history.
Social Science > Indigenous Studies.
Aboriginal Australians
Discoveries in geography
First contact (Anthropology)
Australia
travel.
history.
Indigenous people.
exploration.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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