Strangers on the shore
Subtitle: early coastal contacts in Australia
By: edited by Peter Veth, Peter Sutton and Margo Neale.
Contributors: Veth, Peter Marius.; Sutton, Peter, 1946-; Neale, Margo.; National Museum of Australia.
Publisher: National Museum of Australia Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Canberra
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781876944636
Subjects: First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners -- Australia -- Congresses; Aboriginal Australians -- First contact with Europeans -- Congresses; Aboriginal Australians -- History -- Congresses; Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions -- History -- Congresses; Cultural relations -- Congresses; Intercultural communication -- Congresses; Acculturation -- Australia -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: "Contacts between Indigenous Australians and outsiders - Macassans, Portuguese, Dutch, English, French, Americans and others - are known to have occurred for 400 years. This book explores these diverse, subtle, dynamic and volatile first encounters from Indigenous and non-Indigenous perspectives. It also looks at the myriad elements of these cross-cultural exchanges, which resulted in profound outcomes for the First Australians. Strangers on the Shore: A Conference on Early Coastal Contacts with Australia was a landmark conference held at the National Museum of Australia on 30-31 March 2006"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.