French anthropology in Australia, a prelude
The encounters between Aboriginal Tasmanians and the expedition of Bruny d’Entrecasteaux, 1793
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11963513 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephanie Anderson (0000-0002-6305-6592, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Aboriginal History Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0314-8769 • E-ISSN: 1837-9389 |
| Publisher | ANU Press (PUBLISHER • AU) |
| DOI | 10.22459/ah.24.2011.13 |
| OpenAlex | W2296878476 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 1 |
Encounters between Indigenous Australians and French explorers in the late eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth are a well-documented but not particularly well-known facet of Indigenous and Australian history. The accounts of these encoun ters open, however one-sidedly and scantily, a window onto Indigenous cultures at the time of European contact. In terms of French intellectual history, they are also signifi cant for the construction of anthropological knowledge, both biological and ethno graphic, in France during the nineteenth century. There are a number of important French voyages between 1791 and 1840 that deserve to be examined from this perspec tive.1 My concern in this two-part article is to examine the first two of these expeditions: that of Bruny d'Entrecasteaux (1791)(1792)(1793) in the first part and in the second part Nico las Baudin's (1800-1804). From both expeditions a reasonable amount of anthropologi cal material was amassed which, for Tasmanian society, has been most usefully collated by NJB Plomley.2 The d'Entrecasteaux expedition's sojourn in Van Diemen's Land was a model of engagement in a brief encounter across cultures. Baudin's expedition was less successful in terms of cross-cultural interaction but more complex in its anthropological dimension
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| Citations per year | 0.28 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2011 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |