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March 1797. Ninety Mile Beach, Victoria. Five British sailors and twelve Bengali seamen swim ashore after their longboat is ripped apart in a storm. The British penal colony at Port Jackson is 700 kilometres to the north, their fellow-survivors from the wreck of the Sydney Cove stranded far to the south on a tiny island in Bass Strait. To rescue them and save their own lives, they have no alternative. They set out to walk to Sydney. What follows is one of Australia's greatest survival stories and cross-cultural encounters. In From the Edge, award-winning historian Mark McKenna uncovers the places and histories that Australians so often fail to see. Like the largely forgotten story of the sailors' walk in 1797, these remarkable histories-the founding of a 'new Singapore' in West Arnhem Land in the 1840s, the site of Australia's largest industrial development project in the Pilbara and its extraordinary Indigenous rock art, and James Cook's meeting with Aboriginal people at Cooktown in 1770-lie on the edge of the continent and the edge of national consciousness.Retracing their steps, McKenna explores the central drama of Australian history- the encounter between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians-each altered irrevocably by the other-and offers a new understanding of the country and its people.

First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners --- Shipwreck survival --- Aboriginal Australians --- History. --- Australia --- Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. --- Survival --- Contact, First (Anthropology) --- Cultural contact --- Interethnic contact --- Anthropology --- First contact (Anthropology)

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Bringing together key historical and innovative ethnographic materials on the peoples of the South-West Province of Cameroon and the Nigerian borderlands, this volume presents critical and analytical approaches to the production of ethnic, political, religious, and gendered identities in the region. The contributors examine a range of issues relating to identity, including first encounters and conflict as well as global networking, trans-national families, enculturation, gender, resistance, and death. In addition to a number of very striking illustrations of ethnographic and material culture,

Ethnology --- First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners --- Ethnicity --- Oral tradition --- South-West Province (Cameroon) --- Colonization. --- History --- Social life and customs. --- Tradition, Oral --- Oral communication --- Folklore --- Oral history --- Ethnic identity --- Group identity --- Cultural fusion --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- Contact, First (Anthropology) --- Cultural contact --- Interethnic contact --- Anthropology --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Human beings --- South-West Province, Cameroon --- Province du Sud-Ouest (Cameroon)

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In the early modern age more people traveled farther than at any earlier time in human history. Many returned home with stories of distant lands and at least some of the objects they collected during their journeys. And those who did not travel eagerly acquired wondrous materials that arrived from faraway places. Objects traveled various routes-personal, imperial, missionary, or trade-and moved not only across space but also across cultures. Histories of the early modern global culture of collecting have focused for the most part on European Wunderkammern, or "cabinets of curiosities." But the passion for acquiring unfamiliar items rippled across many lands. The court in Java marveled at, collected, and displayed myriad goods brought through its halls. African princes traded captured members of other African groups so they could get the newest kinds of cloth produced in Europe. Native Americans sought colored glass beads made in Europe, often trading them to other indigenous groups. Items changed hands and crossed cultural boundaries frequently, often gaining new and valuable meanings in the process. An object that might have seemed mundane in some cultures could become a target of veneration in another. The fourteen essays in Collecting Across Cultures represent work by an international group of historians, art historians, and historians of science. Each author explores a specific aspect of the cross-cultural history of collecting and display from the dawn of the sixteenth century to the early decades of the nineteenth century. As the essays attest, an examination of early modern collecting in cross-cultural contexts sheds light on the creative and complicated ways in which objects in collections served to create knowledge-some factual, some fictional-about distant peoples in an increasingly transnational world.

Material culture --- Antiquities --- Preservation of materials. --- First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners --- Exchange --- Commerce --- Economic anthropology --- Economics --- Supply and demand --- Aboriginal peoples' first contact with Westerners --- Contact, First, of aboriginal peoples with Westerners --- Westerners, First contact of aboriginal peoples with --- Discoveries in geography --- Collection and preservation --- Materials --- Archaeological specimens --- Artefacts (Antiquities) --- Artifacts (Antiquities) --- Specimens, Archaeological --- Archaeology --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Collectors and collecting. --- History. --- Preservation --- Atlantic Ocean Region --- Atlantic Area --- Atlantic Region --- exoticism --- History of civilization --- collecting --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Preservation of materials --- Collectors and collecting --- History --- Contact, First (Anthropology) --- Cultural contact --- Interethnic contact --- Anthropology --- First contact (Anthropology) --- cultural diffusion --- collecting curiosities --- American History. --- American Studies. --- European History. --- World History.

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Explorers and ethnographers in Africa during the period of colonial expansion are usually assumed to have been guided by rational aims such as the desire for scientific knowledge, fame, or financial gain. This book, the culmination of many years of research on nineteenth-century exploration in Central Africa, provides a new view of those early European explorers and their encounters with Africans.

Ethnologists. --- Ethnology. --- Ethnology-- Africa, Central-- Fieldwork. --- First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners. --- First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners - Africa, Central - History. --- Ethnology --- Ethnologists --- First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners --- Anthropology - General --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Aboriginal peoples' first contact with Westerners --- Contact, First, of aboriginal peoples with Westerners --- Westerners, First contact of aboriginal peoples with --- Discoveries in geography --- Ethnographers --- Anthropologists --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Human beings --- Fieldwork --- History --- Africa, Central --- Africa, Equatorial --- Central Africa --- Equatorial Africa --- Discovery and exploration --- German. --- Belgian. --- Description and travel. --- Description and travel --- Contact, First (Anthropology) --- Cultural contact --- Interethnic contact --- First contact (Anthropology) --- History. --- Fieldwork.

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Proto-colonial archaeology explores the physical origins of the world culture that evolved out of contacts made in the Age of Exploration, from Columbus to Cromwell. The early defended sites show how colonizing Europeans first responded to the challenges of new environments and new peoples, and how their choices led to conquest, adaption, or failure. Fortifications, once necessary to protect the colonies, are now essential clues to understand their history. The first comparative study of proto-colonial fortifications, First Forts is a collection of essays written by leading archaeologists in the field. Meeting the needs of archaeologists and historians around the globe, this book will also appeal to military enthusiasts, preservationists, and students of the Age of Exploration. Contributors are David Orr, Kathleen Deagan, Steven Pendery, Eric Klingelhofer, Nicholas Luccketti, Edward Harris, Roger Leech, Paul Huey, Jay Haviser, Oscar Hefting, Christopher DeCorse, Ranjith Jayasena and Pieter Floore.

Fortification --- Culture conflict --- First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners --- Colonization --- Archaeology and history --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- History. --- Europe --- Europeans --- Colonies --- History --- Antiquities. --- First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners. --- Archaeology and history. --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Historical archaeology --- History and archaeology --- Ethnology --- Aboriginal peoples' first contact with Westerners --- Contact, First, of aboriginal peoples with Westerners --- Westerners, First contact of aboriginal peoples with --- Discoveries in geography --- Cultural conflict --- Culture wars --- Conflict of cultures --- Intercultural conflict --- Social conflict --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Contact, First (Anthropology) --- Cultural contact --- Interethnic contact --- Anthropology --- First contact (Anthropology) --- Fortification - History. --- Culture conflict - History. --- Colonization - History. --- Europe - Colonies - History --- Europeans - Antiquities.