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UNINA9910810446303321 |
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Titolo |
Strangers on the shore : early coastal contacts in Australia / / edited by Peter Veth, Peter Sutton and Margo Neale |
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Canberra, A.C.T. : , : National Museum of Australia Press, , 2008 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 211 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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VethPeter Marius |
SuttonPeter <1946-> |
NealeMargo |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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First contact (Anthropology) - Australia |
Aboriginal Australians - History |
Aboriginal Australians - Social conditions |
Cultural relations |
Intercultural communication |
Acculturation - Australia |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; 1. Introduction and themes; 2. Strangers and servants of the company; 3. Stories about feeling; 4. 'Strange strangers'; 5. 'Out-of-country'; 6. Rock art and cross-cultural interaction in Sydney; 7. French strangers on Tasmanian shores; 8. European-Indigenous contact at shore-based whaling sites; 9. Harvesting the memory; 10. The mark of marvellous ideas; 11. Pre-Macassans at Dholtji?; 12. Looking for the residents of Terra Australis; 13. The encounter between Captain Cook and Indigenous people at Botany Bay in 1770 reconsidered; 14. The conciliation of strangers; 15. The Australian Contact Shipwrecks Program; References; Untitled |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"Contacts between Indigenous Australians and outsiders - Macassans, Portuguese, Dutch, English, French, Americans and others - are known to have occurred for 400 years. This book explores these diverse, subtle, dynamic and volatile first encounters from Indigenous and non-Indigenous perspectives. It also looks at the myriad elements of these |
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