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The Aboriginal story of Burke and Wills : forgotten narratives / edited by Ian D. Clark and Fred Cahir.
Penn Museum Library GN665 .A36 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Burke and Wills Expedition (1860-1861).
- Burke and Wills Expedition.
- Aboriginal Australians.
- Explorers--Australia.
- Explorers.
- Discoveries in geography.
- Australia--Discovery and exploration--1851-1900.
- Australia.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 314 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Collingwood, Vic : CSIRO Publishing, [2013]
- Contents:
- Introduction : a Yandruwandha perspective / Aaron Paterson
- Responding to Yandruwandha : a contemporary Howitt's experience / Richie Howitt
- Chapter 1. The Aboriginal legacy of the Burke and Wills Expedition : an introduction / Ian D. Clark, Fred Cahir
- Chapter 2. The members of the Victorian Exploring Expedition and their prior experience of Aboriginal peoples / Ian D. Clark
- Chapter 3. 'Exploring is a killing game only to those who do not know anything about it' : William Lockhart Morton and other contemporary views about the Victorian Exploring Expedition and its fate / Ian D. Clark
- Chapter 4. The use and abuse of Aboriginal ecological knowledge / Philip A. Clarke
- Chapter 5. The Aboriginal contribution to the expedition, observed through Germanic eyes / David Dodd. Appendix 5.1. Extracts from the 1861 Anniversary Address of the Royal Society of Victoria delivered by the President, His Excellency Sir Henry Barkly KCB on 8 April 1861 ; Appendix 5.2. English translation of Beckler H. (1867) Corroberri : Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Musik bei den australischen Ureinwohnern, Globus 13, 82-84
- Chapter 6. Language notes connected to the journey of the expedition as far as the Cooper / Luise Hercus
- Chapter 7. Burke and Wills and the Aboriginal people of the Corner Country / Harry Allen
- Chapter 8. 'Devil been walk about tonight - not devil belonging to blackfellow, but white man devil. Methink Burke and Wills cry out tonight "What for whitefellow not send horses and grub?"' : an examination of Aboriginal oral traditions of colonial explorers / Fred Cahir
- Chapter 9. How did Burke die? / Darrell Lewis
- Chapter 10. Telling and retelling national narratives / Deirdre Slattery
- Chapter 11. The influence of Aboriginal country on artist and naturalist Ludwig Becker of the Victorian Exploring Expedition : Mootwingee, 1860-61 / Peta Jeffries
- Chapter 12. If I belong here- how did that come to be? / Paul Lambeth
- Chapter 13. Alfred Howitt and the erasure of Aboriginal history / Leigh Boucher
- Chapter 14. Remembering Edwin J. Welch : surveyor to Howitt's Contingent Exploration Party / Frank Leahy
- Chapter 15. 'We have received news from the blacks' : Aboriginal messengers and their reports of the Burke relief expedition (1861-62) led by John McKinlay / Fred Cahir
- Chapter 16. William Landsborough's expedition of 1862 from Carpentaria to Victoria in search of Burke and Wills : exploration with native police troopers and Aboriginal guides / Peta Jeffries
- Chapter 17. 'I suppose this will end in our having to live like the blacks for a few months' : reinterpreting the history of Burke and Wills / Ian D. Clark, Fred Cahir.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0643108084
- 9780643108080
- OCLC:
- 825018473
- Publisher Number:
- 99955940873
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