| ISBN |
1760460117 |
| 9781760460112 |
| Title |
Brokers and boundaries : colonial exploration in indigenous territory / edited by Tiffany Shellam, Maria Nugent, Shino Konishi and Allison Cadzow. |
| Publisher and/or associated date/s |
Canberra, A.C.T. ANU Press, 2016. |
| ©2016. |
| Description |
xiv, 212 pages : colour illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Aboriginal history monographs |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Brokering in colonial exploration: Biographies, geographies and histories / Tiffany Shellam, Maria Nugent, Shino Konishi and Allison Cadzow -- Bennelong and Gogy: Strategic brokers in colonial New South Wales / Shino Konishi -- 'Race', intimacy and go-betweens in French–West Papuan encounters / Nicole Starbuck -- Aboriginal guides in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales / Mark Dunn -- Guided by her: Aboriginal women's participation in Australian expeditions / Allison Cadzow -- Bobby Roberts: Intermediary and outlaw of Western Australia's south coast / Clint Bracknell -- Mediating the imaginary and the space of encounter in the Papuan Gulf / Dario Di Rosa -- Local agency and William MacGregor's exploration of the Trobriand Islands / Andrew Connelly -- Explorers & co. in interior New Guinea, 1872-1928 / Chris Ballard. |
| 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. |
| Subjects |
Aboriginal Australians -- Biography |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions |
| Discoveries in geography -- 19th century |
| First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners -- Australia |
| Australia -- Discovery and exploration |
| Other Authors &/or Associated Persons |
Cadzow, Allison (editor.) |
| Konishi, Shino (editor.) |
| Nugent, Maria (editor.) |
| Shellam, Tiffany Sophie Bryden, 1979- (editor.) |
| Series |
Aboriginal history monograph |
| Call number |
305.89915 AHM no. 34 |
| Internet Site |
Online version available via ANU Press website |
