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100 1 $aShellam, Tiffany$4aut
245 10 $aBrokers and boundaries. Colonial exploration in indigenous territory
260 $a$bANU Press$c2016
520 $aColonial 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. This collection breaks new ground in its emphasis on Indigenous agency and Indigenous–explorer interactions. It will be of value to historians and others for a very long time. Professor Ann Curthoys, University of Sydney. In bringing together this group of authors, the editors have brought to histories of colonialism the individuality of these intermediaries, whose lives intersected colonial exploration in Australia and New Guinea. Dr Jude Philp, Macleay Museum.
546 $aEnglish
650 7 $2bicssc$aHumanities
650 7 $2bicssc$aHistory
650 7 $2bicssc$aRegional and national history
650 7 $2bicssc$aAustralasian and Pacific history
650 7 $2bicssc$aHistory: specific events and topics
650 7 $2bicssc$aColonialism and imperialism
650 7 $2bicssc$aSociety and social sciences Society and social sciences
650 7 $2bicssc$aSociety and culture: general
650 7 $2bicssc$aSocial groups
650 7 $2bicssc$aEthnic studies
650 7 $2bicssc$aIndigenous peoples
650 7 $2bicssc$aEarth sciences, geography, environment, planning
650 7 $2bicssc$aGeography
650 7 $2bicssc$aGeographical discovery and exploration
650 7 $2bicssc$a
650 7 $2bicssc$aAustralasia, Oceania and other land areas
650 7 $2bicssc$aAustralasia
650 7 $2bicssc$aAustralia
653 $aColonial History
653 $aIndigenous people
653 $aExploration
653 $aAustralia
700 1 $aNugent, Maria$4aut
700 1 $aKonishi, Shino$4aut
700 1 $aCadzow, Allison$4aut
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