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Strangers on the shore : early coastal contacts in Australia / edited by Peter Veth, Peter Sutton and Margo Neale.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- First contact (Anthropology)--Australia--Congresses.
- First contact (Anthropology).
- Aboriginal Australians--History--Congresses.
- Aboriginal Australians.
- Aboriginal Australians--Social conditions--Congresses.
- Cultural relations--Congresses.
- Cultural relations.
- Intercultural communication--Congresses.
- Intercultural communication.
- Acculturation--Australia--Congresses.
- Acculturation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 211 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Canberra, A.C.T. : National Museum of Australia Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "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 cross-cultural exchanges, which resulted in profound outcomes for the First Australians. Strangers on the Shore: A Conference on Early Coastal Contacts with Australia was a landmark conference held at the National Museum of Australia on 30-31 March 2006"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-921953-03-9
- OCLC:
- 778891271
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