RBGV library
Image from Google Jackets

Indigenous intermediaries : new perspectives on exploration archives / edited by Shino Konishi, Maria Nugent and Tiffany Shellam.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Aboriginal History MonographPublisher: Acton, A.C.T. : ANU Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: xvi, 205 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps (some colour), portraits (chiefly colour) ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781925022766 (paperback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 994.0049915 23
Online resources:
Partial contents:
Agency, affect, and local knowledge in the exploration of Oceania / Bronwen Douglas -- British-Tahitian collaborative drawing strategies on Cook's Endeavour voyage / Harriet Parsons -- Encounters and the photographic record in British New Guinea / Antje Lũbcke.
Summary: This edited collection understands exploration as a collective effort and experience involving a variety of people in diverse kinds of relationships. It engages with the recent resurgence of interest in the history of exploration by focusing on the various indigenous intermediaries - Jacky Jacky, Bungaree, Moowattin, Tupaia, Mai, Cheealthluc and lesser-known individuals - who were the guides, translators, and hosts that assisted and facilitated European travellers in exploring different parts of the world. These intermediaries are rarely the authors of exploration narratives, or the main focus within exploration archives. Nonetheless the archives of exploration contain imprints of their presence, experience and contributions. The chapters present a range of ways of reading archives to bring them to the fore. The contributors ask new questions of existing materials, suggest new interpretive approaches, and present innovative ways to enhance sources so as to generate new stories.--cover.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book State Botanical Collection RBG 994.0049915 IND (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Issued 21/07/2021 RBG00023926

Includes bibliographical references.

Agency, affect, and local knowledge in the exploration of Oceania / Bronwen Douglas -- British-Tahitian collaborative drawing strategies on Cook's Endeavour voyage / Harriet Parsons -- Encounters and the photographic record in British New Guinea / Antje Lũbcke.

OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks). All rights reserved.

This edited collection understands exploration as a collective effort and experience involving a variety of people in diverse kinds of relationships. It engages with the recent resurgence of interest in the history of exploration by focusing on the various indigenous intermediaries - Jacky Jacky, Bungaree, Moowattin, Tupaia, Mai, Cheealthluc and lesser-known individuals - who were the guides, translators, and hosts that assisted and facilitated European travellers in exploring different parts of the world. These intermediaries are rarely the authors of exploration narratives, or the main focus within exploration archives. Nonetheless the archives of exploration contain imprints of their presence, experience and contributions. The chapters present a range of ways of reading archives to bring them to the fore. The contributors ask new questions of existing materials, suggest new interpretive approaches, and present innovative ways to enhance sources so as to generate new stories.--cover.

English.

Powered by

Koha

Provided by

RBGV

Hosted by

Catalyst