A Peep at the Blacks

A History of Tourism at Coranderrk Aboriginal Station, 1863-1924

Bibliographic Data

ID19911530
AuthorsIan Clark (0000-0001-7698-2715, corresponding author)
Year2015
Publication date2015-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenuePeep at the Blacks' (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherDe Gruyter Open (PUBLISHER • PL)
DOI10.1515/9783110468243
OpenAlexW2985170991
Open LibraryOL29302689M
ISBN9783110468243
LanguageEN
Citations received4

This book is concerned with the history of tourism at the Coranderrk Aboriginal Station at Healesville, northeast of Melbourne, which functioned as a government reserve from 1863 until its closure in 1924. At Coranderrk, Aboriginal mission interests and tourism intersected and the station became a ‘showplace’ of Aboriginal culture and the government policy of assimilation. The Aboriginal residents responded to tourist interest by staging cultural performances that involved boomerang throwing and traditional ways of lighting fires and by manufacturing and selling traditional artifacts. Whenever government policy impacted adversely on the Aboriginal community, the residents of Coranderrk took advantage of the opportunities offered to them by tourism to advance their political and cultural interests. This was particularly evident in the 1910s and 1920s when government policy moved to close the station

Australian History and Society · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Psychology · History · Tourism · Victoria

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