Meeting the Waylo : Aboriginal Encounters in the Archipelago

Language: English

Published by UWA Publishing, Australia, 2019

1760801135 / 9781760801137

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AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINAL This book explores the experiences of Indigenous Australians who participated in Australian exploration enterprises in the early nineteenth century. These Indigenous travellers, often referred to as 'guides', 'native aides', or 'intermediaries', have already been cast in a variety of ways by historians: earlier historiographies represented them as passive side-players in European heroic efforts of Discovery, while scholarship in the 1980s, led by Henry Reynolds, re-cast these individuals as 'black pioneers'. Historians now acknowledge that Aborigines 'provided information about the customs and languages of contiguous tribes, and acted as diplomats and couriers arranging in advance for the safe passage of European parties'. More recently, Indigenous scholars Keith Vincent Smith and Lynnette Russell describe such Aboriginal travellers as being entrepreneurial 'agents of their own destiny'. While historiography has made up some ground in this area Aboriginal motivations in exploring parties, while difficult to discern, are often obscured or ignored under the title 'guide' or 'intermediary'. Despite the different ways in which they have been cast, the mobility of these travellers, their motivations for travel and experience of it have not been thoroughly analysed. Some recent studies have begun to open up this narrative, revealing instead the ways in which colonisation enabled and encouraged entrepreneurial mobility, bringing about 'new patterns of mobility for colonised peoples'.xiii, 271 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references ([251]-263) and index. #310323Aboriginal Australians -- First contact with Europeans. | Discoveries in geography -- History -- 19th century. | Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions. | First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners -- Australia. | Australia -- Discovery and exploration | Australian Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA.…

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Title
Meeting the Waylo : Aboriginal Encounters in the Archipelago
Author
Shellam, Tiffany
Publisher
UWA Publishing, Australia
Publication year
2019
Condition
Near Fine
Binding
Softcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
1760801135
ISBN 13
9781760801137
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