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Brokers and boundaries : colonial exploration in indigenous territory / edited by Tiffany Shellam, Maria Nugent, Shino Konishi and Allison Cadzow.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Aboriginal history monographPublisher: Acton, ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press, [2016]Description: xiv, 212 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781760460112
  • 1760460117
Contained works:
  • Shellam, Tiffany, 1979-. Brokering in colonial exploration
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 994.02 23
Online resources:
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."--
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book State Botanical Collection RBG 994.02 BRO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Issued 21/07/2021 RBG00023927

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

"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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