Brokers and boundaries colonial exploration in indigenous territory
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...
| Otros Autores: | , , , |
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Acton, A.C.T. :
ANU Press
2016.
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| Colección: | Open Research Library ebooks.
Aboriginal history monographs. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b44549337*spi |
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.
