Meeting the Waylo : Aboriginal Encounters in the Archipelago
UWA Publishing, 2019. 1st ed., octavo, wraps, colour plates, b&w illus, bibliography, index, pp xiii, 27. Light wear to the front edge and corners. Very good condition.
A history of story-making about the experiences of Migeo, Boongaree and Bundle, three Indigeneous Australians who were inmediaries on board maritime expeditions in the early nineteenth century. These men travelled to the archipelagos of the north-west of Western Australia, where they became central figures in encounters between the crew and local Indigenous groups on shore.
Indigenous travellers, often referred to as 'guides', 'native aides', or 'intermediaries' have already been cast in a variety of ways by historians: earlier historiographies represented them as passive side-players in European heroic efforts of Discovery, while scholarship in the 1980s, led by Henry Reynolds, re-cast these individuals as 'black pioneers'. Despite the different ways in which they have been cast, the mobility of these travellers, their motivations for travel and experience of it have not been thoroughly analysed. Some recent studies have begun to open up this narrative, revealing instead the ways in which colonisation enabled and encouraged entrepreneurial mobility, bringing about 'new patterns of mobility for colonised peoples'. Item #106726
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