Spanning the late 18th century to the present, this volume explores new directions in imperial and postcolonial histories of conciliation, performance, and conflict between European colonizers and Indigenous peoples in Australia and the Pacific Rim, including Aotearoa New Zealand, Hawaii and the Northwest Pacific Coast. It examines cultural "rituals" and objects; the re-enactments of various events and encounters of exchange, conciliation and diplomacy that occurred on colonial frontiers between non-Indigenous and Indigenous peoples; commemorations of historic events; and how the histories of colonial conflict and conciliation are politicized in nation-building and national identities.
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"This book is noteworthy because its essays draw to our attention 'conciliation' as an historical theme and component of the imperial encounter. It is to be hoped that imperial historians--and not just those interested in the Pacific Rim--will both read the book and absorb its lessons." - Richard N. Price, H-Net Review, University of Maryland
1. Conciliation and Conflict, Performance and Commemoration in Colonial
Australia and the Pacific Rim
Kate Darian-Smith and Penelope Edmonds Part I: Encounters and Performances
2.
Cross-Cultural Inquiry in 1802: Musical Performance on the Baudin Expedition
to Australia Jean Fornasiero and John West-Sooby
3. We Should Take Each
Other by the Hand: Conciliation and Diplomacy in Colonial Australia and
North West Canada Amanda Nettelbeck
4. Breastplates: Re-enacting Possession
in North America and Australia Kate Darian-Smith
5. Naturally Disturbed:
Reimagining the Pastoral Frontier Sue Kneebone Part II: Conciliations and
Frontiers
6. The Fainter Land: Photography, Colonialism and Living Pictures
Jane Lydon
7. Message Sticks and Indigenous Diplomacy: Thomsons
TreatyBrokering Peace on Australias Northern Frontier in the 1930s Lindy
Allen
8. The Australian South Sea Islanders (ASSI): Towards a Postcolonial
Australia? Kathleen Mary Fallon
9. Bones as a Bridge Between Worlds:
Responding with Ceremony to the Repatriation of Aboriginal Human Remains from
the United States to Australia Martin Thomas Part III: Performing Nationhood
10. Tame Iti at the Confiscation Line: Contesting the Consensus Politics of
the Waitangi Treaty in Aotearoa New Zealand Penelope Edmonds
11. An Echo of
That Other Cry: Re-enacting Captain Cooks First Landing as Conciliation
Event Maria Nugent
12. Picturing Collaboration: European Women Photographers
and Indigenous Peoples in the Contestation of British and American
Imperialism in the Pacific, 18901910 Anne Maxwell
13. Entertaining
Possession: Re-enacting Cooks Arrival for the Queen Katrina Schlunke
Kate Darian-Smith holds concurrent appointments as Professor of Australian Studies and History, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, Faculty of Arts, and Professor of Cultural Heritage, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne.
Penelope Edmonds is Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Associate Professor, School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, University of Tasmania.
