Overview

This edited collection focuses on Aboriginal and Māori travel in colonial contexts. Authors in this collection examine the ways that Indigenous people moved and their motivations for doing so. Chapters consider the cultural aspects of travel for Indigenous communities on both sides of the Tasman. Contributors examine Indigenous purposes for mobility, including for community and individual economic wellbeing, to meet other Indigenous or non-Indigenous peoples and experience different cultures, and to gather knowledge or experience, or to escape from colonial intrusion. 'This volume is the first to take up three challenges in histories of Indigenous mobilities. First, it analyses both mobility and emplacement. Challenging stereotypes of Indigenous people as either fixed or mobile, chapters deconstruct issues with ramifications for contemporary politics and analyses of Indigenous society and of rural and national histories. As such, it is a welcome intervention in a wide range of urgent issues. Second, by examining Indigenous peoples in both Australia and New Zealand, this volume is an innovative step in removing the artificial divisions that have arisen from ""national"" histories. Third, the collection connects the experiences of colonised Indigenous peoples with those of their colonisers, shifting the long-held stereotypes of Indigenous powerlessness. Chapters then convincingly demonstrate the agency of colonised peoples in shaping the actions and the mobility itself of the colonisers. While the volume overall is aimed at opening up new research questions, and so invites later and even more innovative work, this volume will stand as an important guide to the directions such future work might take.' — Heather Goodall, Professor Emerita, UTS

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Author:   Rachel Standfield
Publisher:   ANU Press
Imprint:   ANU Press
ISBN:  

9781760462147

ISBN 10:   1760462144
Pages:   290
Publication Date:   04 June 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Moving Across, Looking Beyond Crossing Boundaries: Tracing Indigenous Mobility and Territory in the Exploration of South Eastern Australia Mobility, Reciprocal Relationships and Early British Encounters in the North of New Zealand 'A Defining Characteristic of the Southern People': Southern Maori Mobility and the Tasman World Entangled Mobilities: Missions, Maori and the Reshaping of Te Ao Hurihuri 'As Much as They Can Gorge': Colonial Containment and Indigenous Tasmanian Mobility at Oyster Cove Aboriginal Station Looking Out to Sea: Indigenous Mobility and Engagement in Australia's Coastal Industries Miago and the 'Great Northern Men': Indigenous Histories from In-Between Indigenous Women, Marriage and Colonial Mobility Paora Tuhaere's Voyage to Rarotonga Reconnecting with South East Asia

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