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Explorations into highland New Guinea, 1930-1935
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ISBN: 0817383158 0585116555 9780585116556 9780817383152 0817304460 9780817304461 Year: 1991 Publisher: Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press

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In the 1920's and 1930's there were adventures to be lived and fortunes to be made by strong young men in the outback of Australia and the gold fields of New Guinea. This is the diary of five years spent in hot pursuit-not of honor and glory, but of excitement and riches-by one such adventurer, Michael ""Mick"" Leahy, his brothers Jim and Pat, and friends Mick Dwyer and Jim Taylor. Leahy and his associates explored the unknown interior of New Guinea, seeking gold and making contact for the first time with the aborigines of the interior mountains and valleys.


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Transcultural space and transcultural beings
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ISBN: 0813319749 Year: 1996 Volume: *6 Publisher: Boulder, Colo. ; Oxford,UK Westview Press


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Collecting across cultures : material exchanges in the early Atlantic world
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ISBN: 9780812243055 9780812222203 0812222202 0812243056 0812204964 1283896443 9781283896443 9780812204964 Year: 2011 Volume: *1 Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,

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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.


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Brokers and boundaries: Colonial exploration in Indigenous territory
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ISBN: 1760460117 1760460125 9781760460129 9781760460112 Year: 2016 Publisher: ANU Press

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Colonial exploration continues, all too often, to be rendered as heroic narratives of solitary, intrepid explorers and adventurers. This edited collection contributes to scholarship that is challenging that persistent mythology. With a focus on Indigenous brokers, such as guides, assistants and mediators, it highlights the ways in which nineteenth-century exploration in Australia and New Guinea was a collective and socially complex enterprise. Many of the authors provide biographically rich studies that carefully examine and speculate about Indigenous brokers' motivations, commitments and desires. All of the chapters in the collection are attentive to the specific local circumstances as well as broader colonial contexts in which exploration and encounters occurred. Colonial exploration continues, all too often, to be rendered as heroic narratives of solitary, intrepid explorers and adventurers. This edited collection contributes to scholarship that is challenging that persistent mythology.

Out of our minds
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ISBN: 0520923936 1597347906 9780520923935 0585391599 9780585391595 9780520221222 0520221222 9780520221239 0520221230 0520221222 0520221230 Year: 2000 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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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.

Out of our minds : reason and madness in the exploration of Central Africa : the Ad. E. Jensen lectures at the Frobenius Institut, University of Frankfurt
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ISBN: 0520221222 0520221230 9780520221222 9780520221239 Year: 2000 Publisher: Berkeley, Calif.: University of California press,

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Travel, exploration, and occupation -- Living and dying -- Drives, emotions, and moods -- Things, sounds, and spectacles -- Communicating and commanding -- Charisma, cannabis, and crossing Africa: explorers in the land of friendship -- Making knowledge: the senses and cognition -- Making sense: knowledge and understanding -- Presence and representation.


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First forts
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ISBN: 9789004187542 9789004187320 9004187324 9004187545 1282948865 9786612948862 Year: 2010 Volume: 60 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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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.


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Indigenous Intermediaries: New perspectives on exploration archives
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ISBN: 1925022773 9781925022773 9781925022766 1925022765 Year: 2015 Publisher: ANU Press

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This edited collection understands exploration as a collective effort and experience involving a variety of people in diverse kinds of relationships. It engages with the recent resurgence of interest in the history of exploration by focusing on the various indigenous intermediaries – Jacky Jacky, Bungaree, Moowattin, Tupaia, Mai, Cheealthluc and lesser-known individuals – who were the guides, translators, and hosts that assisted and facilitated European travellers in exploring different parts of the world. These intermediaries are rarely the authors of exploration narratives, or the main focus within exploration archives. Nonetheless the archives of exploration contain imprints of their presence, experience and contributions. The chapters present a range of ways of reading archives to bring them to the fore. The contributors ask new questions of existing materials, suggest new interpretive approaches, and present innovative ways to enhance sources so as to generate new stories.


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Colonial mediascapes
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ISBN: 0803254415 0803254407 9780803254404 9780803254411 9780803254428 0803254423 9780803232396 080323239X 9780803249998 0803249993 Year: 2014 Publisher: Lincoln

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In colonial North and South America, print was only one way of communicating. Information in various forms flowed across the boundaries between indigenous groups and early imperial settlements. Natives and newcomers made speeches, exchanged gifts, invented gestures, and inscribed their intentions on paper, bark, skins, and many other kinds of surfaces. No one method of conveying meaning was privileged, and written texts often relied on nonwritten modes of communication. Colonial Mediascapes examines how textual and nontextual literatures interacted in colo

The discovery of mankind : Atlantic encounters in the age of Columbus
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ISBN: 9780300125825 0300125828 Year: 2008 Publisher: New Haven: Yale university press,

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Acculturation --- Culture conflict --- Explorers --- First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners --- Indigenous peoples --- Public opinion --- Opinion, Public --- Perception, Public --- Popular opinion --- Public perception --- Public perceptions --- Judgment --- Social psychology --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Focus groups --- Reputation --- Aboriginal peoples --- Aborigines --- Adivasis --- Indigenous populations --- Native peoples --- Native races --- Ethnology --- Aboriginal peoples' first contact with Westerners --- Contact, First, of aboriginal peoples with Westerners --- Westerners, First contact of aboriginal peoples with --- Discoveries in geography --- Discoverers --- Navigators --- Voyagers --- Adventure and adventurers --- Heroes --- Cultural conflict --- Culture wars --- Conflict of cultures --- Intercultural conflict --- Social conflict --- Culture contact --- Development education --- Civilization --- Culture --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Cultural fusion --- History --- Public opinion&delete& --- America --- Canary Islands --- Caribbean Area --- Latin America --- Americas --- New World --- Western Hemisphere --- Asociación Latinoamericana de Libre Comercio countries --- Neotropical region --- Neotropics --- New World tropics --- Spanish America --- Caribbean Free Trade Association countries --- Caribbean Region --- Caribbean Sea Region --- West Indies Region --- Archipiélago Canario --- Canarias (Islands) --- Canarie --- Canaries (Islands) --- Canarische Eilanden --- Comunidad Autónoma de Canarias --- De Kanariske Øer --- Gobierno de Canarias --- Gżejjer Kanarji --- Ilhas Canárias --- Insulele Canare --- Ishujt Kanarie --- Islas Canarias --- Junta de Canarias --- Kanaari saared --- Kanarī Shotō --- Kanári-szigetek --- Kanaria Shotō --- Kanarian saaret --- Kanariansaaret --- Kanarieöarna --- Kanāriju salas --- Kanarioi Nēsoi --- Kanarische Inseln --- Kanariske Øer --- Kanarų salos --- Kanarska ostrva --- Kanárské ostrovy --- Kanarski ostrovi --- Kanarski Otoci --- Kanarski otoki --- Wyspy Kanaryjskie --- Κανάριοι Νήσοι --- Канарска острва --- Канарски острови --- カナリア諸島 --- カナリー諸島 --- Discovery and exploration --- European. --- Geography --- History of civilization --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Atlantic Ocean --- Contact, First (Anthropology) --- Cultural contact --- Interethnic contact --- Anthropology --- Culture contact (Acculturation)

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