Exchanges : cross-cultural encounters in Australia and the Pacific / edited by Ross Gibson
Published
Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 1996
Copies
Description
xiii, 279 pages ; 21 cm
Contents
Introduction / Ross Gibson -- Colebe / Gerry Bostock -- 'By slow degrees we began ... to understand each other ... even in this the natives have the advantage' / Jakelin Troy -- Repetitions at night: mimicry, noise and context / Paul Carter -- Ocean settlement / Ross Gibson -- The first 30 years / Eric Rolls -- Looking for signs of life: nature and the genius loci in the austral city / Geoff Park -- Tabooed ground: Augustus Earle in New Zealand and Australia / Nicholas Thomas -- Voices from the beach / Greg Dening -- Desire, difference and disease: sexual and venereal exchanges on Cook's voyages in the Pacific / Margaret Jolly -- Birthplaces revisited / Ann McGrath -- Anatomy of a museum / Tony Birch -- Am I black enough for you? / Nicola Joseph
Summary
Exchanges: cross-cultural encounters in Australia and the pacific
Notes
"A Museum of Sydney on the site of first Government House publication"