In the eye of the beholder : what six nineteenth-century women tell us about indigenous authority and identity / Barbara Dawson
- Bib ID:
- 6572751
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Dawson, Barbara (Barbara Chambers), author
- Description:
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- Canberra, A.C.T. : ANU Press, [2014]
- ©2014
- xxv, 195 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits ; 25 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781925021967 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Annotation. This book offers a fresh perspective in the debate on settler perceptions of Indigenous Australians. It draws together a suite of little known colonial women (apart from Eliza Fraser) and investigates their writings for what they reveal about their attitudes to, views on and beliefs about Aboriginal people, as presented in their published works. The way that reader expectations and publishers' requirements slanted their representations forms part of this analysis. All six women write of their first-hand experiences on Australian frontiers of settlement. The division into 'adventurers' (Eliza Fraser, Eliza Davies and Emily Cowl) and longer-term 'settlers' (Katherine Kirkland, Mary McConnel and Rose Scott Cowen) allows interrogation into the differing representations between those with a transitory knowledge of Indigenous people and those who had a close and more permanent relationship with Indigenous women, even encompassing individual friendship. More pertinently, the book strives to reveal the aspects, largely overlooked in colonial narratives, of Indigenous agency, authority and individuality.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- NLA's copies are signed by the author
- Includes bibliographcial references.
- Subject:
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- Women pioneers -- Australia -- Attitudes
- Intercultural communication -- Australia -- 19th century
- Aboriginal Australians -- Public opinion -- History
- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- Australia -- History -- 1788-1900
- Wadyalang people (D45) (Qld SG55-05)
- Ngarrindjeri / Narrinjeri people (S69) (SA SI54-13)
- Settlement and contacts - Settlers
- Dungidjau people (E20) (Qld SG56-14)
- Jagara / Yuggera people (E23) (Qld SG56-14)
- Kurtjar people (G33) (Qld SE54-07)
- Wathawurrung / Wada wurrung / Wathaurong people (S29) (Vic SJ54-12)
- Gubbi Gubbi / Kabi Kabi / Gabi Gabi people (E29) (Qld SG56-06)
- Race relations - Attitudes
- Australia -- Race relations -- History -- 1788-1900
- Bulimba (SE Qld SG56-15)
- Mount Emu (W Vic SJ54-08)
- Normanton (Qld Gulf SE54-07)
- Longford (Qld Far West SG54-08)
- Cressbrook (SE Qld SG56-14)
- Tambo (SW Qld SG55-02)
- Australian
- Also Titled:
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- In the eye of the beholder : what six 19th century women tell us about indigenous authority and identity
- In the eye of the beholder : what 6 19th century women tell us about indigenous authority and identity
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- Publication date:
- 2014
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