Brokers and boundaries : colonial exploration in Indigenous territory

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
Otros Autores: Shellam, Tiffany (Editor ), Shellam, Tiffany, 1979-, editor (editor), Nugent, Maria, editor, Konishi, Shino, editor, Cadzow, Allison, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Acton ACT, Australia : ANU Press 2016
[2016]
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Aboriginal history monograph series
Materias:
First contact (Anthropology) > Australia.
Aboriginal Australians > Biography.
Aboriginal Australians > Social conditions.
Discoveries in geography > History > 19th century.
Australia > Discovery and exploration.
australia
colonial history
indigenous people
exploration
Bennelong
Ethnic groups in Europe
New Guinea
Trobriand Islands
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009428287706719
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Sumario: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. 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.
Notas:Description based upon print version of record.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (212 pages) : colour illustrations, maps
Available in print form
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781760460129
Acceso:Open access

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