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Exploration archives and indigenous histories: an introduction

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posted on 2015-01-01, 00:00 authored by S Konishi, M Nugent, Tiffany ShellamTiffany Shellam
Since the 1990s, a number of scholars have sought to uncover ‘hidden histories’ of exploration, as Felix Driver and Lowri Jones have referred to it.1 Working against a conventional emphasis on the exploits and achievements of the singular heroic explorer, imperial and colonial exploration is recast as a collective enterprise involving a diverse labour force and upon which expeditions were dependent for their progress and success.2 Various approaches are pursued for writing a more representative history of exploration, such as recuperating
from the archives the stories of little- or lesser-known participants; rewriting histories of particular expeditions through the lens of their encounters and interactions with indigenous people; or giving greater prominence to the work of intermediaries of many kinds, including interpreters, brokers, guides, porters and other labourers.3 The result is a more complex and multivocal account of the practices and politics of European exploration, the social and historical contexts in which it occurred, and the relationships, networks and institutions it created
and on which it depended.

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Title of book

Indigenous intermediaries: new perspectives on exploration archives

Chapter number

1

Pagination

1 - 10

Publisher

ANU Press

Place of publication

Canberra, Australia

ISBN-13

9781925022766

Language

eng

Grant ID

DP110100931

Publication classification

B1 Book chapter

Copyright notice

2015, ANU Press

Extent

10

Editor/Contributor(s)

S Konishi, M Nugent, T Shellam

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