Shaking Hands on the Fringe
Negotiating the Aboriginal World at King George's Sound
$51.74
- Paperback
274 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2009
Summary
In 1826 the British set up a garrison on the edges of an Aboriginal world at King George’s Sound, the site of present day Albany, Western Australia, with the aim of deterring the French from occupying the area. The British newcomers and the area’s Indigenous inhabitants, the King Ya-nup, came to share a small space, forcing both cultures to adapt in order to communicate and interact with one another. Within this sphere associations and friendships were formed that were as surprising as they w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781921401268 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1921401265 |
| Author: | Tiffany Shellam |
| Publisher: | UWA Publishing |
| Imprint: | UWAP |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 274 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2009 |
| Weight: | 440g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 155mm |
| Series: | Staples South West Region Publications |
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About The Author
Tiffany Shellam
Tiffany Shellam lectures in History at Deakin University. She works collaboratively with Noongar people and historians, museum curators, archivists and librarians to critique the archives, unearthing hidden and alternative histories generated by encounters between Indigenous people and European explorers and settlers in the early nineteenth century. Her first book, Shaking Hands on the Fringe: Negotiating the Aboriginal world at King George’s Sound, was published by UWA Publishing in 2009.
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