| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 238 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Understanding the Macassans / Marshall Clark, Sally K. May -- Studying trepangers / Campbell Macknight -- Crossing the great divide Australia and eastern Indonesia / Anthony Reid -- Histories with traction Macassan contact in the framework of Muslim Australian history / Regina Ganter -- Interpreting the Macassans language exchange in historical encounters / Paul Thomas -- Unbirri's pre-Macassan egacy, or how the Yolngu became black / Ian S. McIntosh -- 'An Arnhem Land adventure' representations of Macassan-Indigenous Australian connections in popular geographical magazines / Rebecca Bilous -- Rock art evidence for Macassan-Aboriginal contact in northwestern Arnhem Land / Paul S. C. Tacon, Sally K. May -- Drug substances introduced by the Macassans the mystery of the tobacco pipe / Maggie Brady -- Tangible heritage of the Macassan-Aboriginal encounter in contemporary South Sulawesi / Marshall Clark -- Traditional and 'modern' trepang fisheries on the border of the Indonesian and Australian fishing zones / Dedi Supriadi Adhuri -- Travelling the 'Malay Road' recognising the heritage significance of the Macassan maritime trade routes / Sandy Blair, Nicholas Hall |
| Summary |
This book presents inter-disciplinary perspectives on the maritime journeys of the Macassan trepangers who sailed in fleets of wooden sailing vessels known as praus from the port city of Makassar in southern Sulawesi to the northern Australian coastline |
| Analysis |
indonesia, fishing |
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resource management |
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indonesian history |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
| In |
Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR |
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OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN |
| Subject |
Makasar (Indonesian people) -- Australia, Northern -- History
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Fishers -- Indonesia -- History
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia, Northern -- Foreign influences
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Aboriginal Australians -- History
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Australasian and Pacific history.
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History.
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Humanities.
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Regional and national history.
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HISTORY -- Asia -- Southeast Asia.
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Aboriginal Australians
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Aboriginal Australians -- Foreign influences
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Discoveries in geography
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Fishers
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Makasar (Indonesian people)
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Discovery and exploration
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| Subject |
Australia
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Indonesia
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Northern Australia
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Clark, Marshall Alexander, editor.
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May, Sally K., editor.
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| ISBN |
9781922144973 |
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1922144975 |
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1922144967 |
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9781922144966 |
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