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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910137044603321
• Autore: Shellam Tiffany
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: ANU Press, 2016; Acton ACT, Australia : , : Australian National University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• ISBN: 1-76046-012-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (212 pages) : colour illustrations, maps
• Collana: Aboriginal history monograph
• Disciplina: 613.69
• Soggetti: First contact (Anthropology) - Australia; Aboriginal Australians; Aboriginal Australians - Social conditions; Discoveries in geography - History - 19th century; Australia Discovery and exploration
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Brokering in colonial exploration: Biographies, geographies and histories -- 2. Bennelong and Gogy: Strategic brokers in colonial New South Wales -- 3. 'Race', intimacy and go-betweens in French-West Papuan encounters -- 4. Aboriginal guides in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales -- 5. Guided by her: Aboriginal women's participation in Australian expeditions -- 6. Bobby Roberts: Intermediary and outlaw of Western Australia's south coast -- 7. Mediating the imaginary and the space of encounter in the Papuan Gulf -- 8. Local agency and William MacGregor's exploration of the Trobriand Islands -- 9. Explorers and co. in interior New Guine, 1872-1928
• Sommario/riassunto: 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. 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.