Title Strangers on the shore : early coastal contacts in Australia / edited by Peter Veth, Peter Sutton and Margo Neale

Published Canberra, A.C.T. : National Museum of Australia Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 211 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits Contents Introduction and themes -- Strangers and servants of the company: the United East India Company and the Dutch voyages to Australia -- Stories about feeling: Dutch-Australian contact in Cape York peninsula, 1606-1756 -- 'Strange strangers': first contact between Europeans and Karajarri people on the Kimberley coast of Western Australia -- 'Out-of-country': too many cooks spoilt the broth -- Rock art and cross-cultural interaction in Sydney: how did each side perceive the other? -- French strangers on Tasmanian shores -- European-Indigenous contact at shore-based whaling sites -- Harvesting the memory: open beaches in Makassar and Arnhem Land -- The mark of marvellous ideas: Groote Eylandt rock art and the performance of cross-cultural relations -- Pre-Macassans at Dholtji?: exploring one of north-east Arnhem Land's great conundrums -- Looking for the residents of Terra Australis: the importance of Nyungar in the early European coastal exploration -- The encounter between Captain Cook and Indigenous people at Botany Bay in 1770 reconsidered -- The conciliation of strangers -- The Australian Contact Shipwrecks Program 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Subject First contact (Anthropology) -- Australia -- Congresses Aboriginal Australians -- History -- Congresses Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions -- Congresses Cultural relations -- Congresses Intercultural communication -- Congresses Acculturation -- Australia -- Congresses HISTORY -- Australia & New Zealand. Aboriginal Australians Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions Acculturation Cultural relations First contact (Anthropology) Intercultural communication Kulturkontakt Ethnische Beziehungen Australia Australien Aborigines. Europäer. Genre/Form proceedings (reports) Conference papers and proceedings History Conference papers and proceedings. Actes de congrès. Form Electronic book Author Veth, Peter Marius Sutton, Peter, 1946- Neale, Margo National Museum of Australia. ISBN 9781921953033 1921953039 9781876944889 1876944889

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