Exploration archives and indigenous histories

An introduction

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ID20076772
AutoresShoko Konishi (0000-0002-2771-9555, Australian National University), Shino Konishi, Maria Nugent (0000-0001-5258-697X, Australian National University), Tiffany Shellam (0000-0001-8521-7564)
Ano2015
Data de publicação2015-09-29
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoCHAPTER
PeriódicoIndigenous intermediaries (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraANU Press (PUBLISHER • AU)
DOI10.22459/ii.09.2015.01
OpenAlexW2533206550
ISBN9781925022773
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas13

Since the 1990s, a number of scholars have sought to uncover 'hidden histories' of exploration, as Felix Driver and Lowri Jones have referred to it. 1 Working against a conventional emphasis on the exploits and achievements of the singular heroic explorer, imperial and colonial exploration is recast as a collective enterprise involving a diverse labour force and upon which expeditions were dependent for their progress and success. 2 Various approaches are pursued for writing a more representative history of exploration, such as recuperating from the archives the stories of little-or lesser-known participants; rewriting histories of particular expeditions through the lens of their encounters and interactions with indigenous people; or giving greater prominence to the work of intermediaries of many kinds, including interpreters, brokers, guides, porters and other labourers. 3 The result is a more complex and multivocal account of the practices and politics of European exploration, the social and historical contexts in which it occurred, and the relationships, networks and institutions it created and on which it depended

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