Brokers and boundaries : colonial exploration in indigenous territory / editors: Tiffany Shellam, Maria Nugent, Shino Konishi and Allison Cadzow.
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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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Acton, A.C.T. :
ANU Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Aboriginal history monograph series.
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| Online Access: | JSTOR Open Access Access via Directory of Open Access Books |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (212 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 1760460125 9781760460129 1760460117 9781760460112 |