ISBN |
9781876944636 (pbk.) |
Title |
Strangers on the shore : early coastal contacts in Australia / edited by Peter Veth, Peter Sutton and Margo Neale. |
Publisher and/or associated date/s |
Canberra : National Museum of Australia Press, 2008. |
Description |
xii, 236 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour), portraits. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Contents |
Strangers and servants of the company: the United East India Company and the Dutch voyages to Australia -- Dutch-Australian contact in Cape York peninsula, 1606-1756 -- First contact between Europeans and Karajarri people on the Kimberley coast of Western Australia -- Rock art and cross-cultural interaction in Sydney -- French strangers on Tasmanian shores -- European-Indigenous contact at shore-based whaling sites -- Harvesting the memory: open beaches in Makassar and Arnhem Land -- Groote Eylandt rock art and the performance of cross-cultural relations -- Pre-Macassans at Dholtji?: exploring one of north-east Arnhem Land's great conundrums -- Looking for the residents of Terra Australis: the importance of Nyungar in the early coastal exploration -- Encounter between Captain Cook and Indigenous people at Botany Bay in 1770 reconsidered -- Conciliation of strangers -- Australian Contact Shipwrecks Program. |
Summary |
"Contacts between Indigenous Australians and outsiders - Macassans, Portuguese, Dutch, English, French, Americans and others - are known to have occurred for 400 years. -- This book explores these diverse, subtle, dynamic and volatile first encounters from Indigenous and non-Indigenous perspectives. -- It also looks at the myriad elements of these cross-cultural exchanges, which resulted in profound outcomes for the First Australians. Strangers on the Shore: A Conference on Early Coastal Contacts with Australia was a landmark conference held at the National Museum of Australia on 30-31 March 2006."-- Provided by publisher. |
Subjects |
First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners -- Australia |
Aboriginal Australians -- First contact with Europeans |
Aboriginal Australians -- History |
Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions -- History |
Cultural relations |
Intercultural communication |
Acculturation -- Australia |
Other Authors &/or Associated Persons |
Veth, Peter Marius (editor) |
Sutton, Peter, 1946- (editor) |
Neale, Margo (editor) |
Call number |
NMA G 2008 |
NMA 2008 |
EDWARDS 303.482 STR |