Dancing with Strangers
Europeans and Australians at First Contact
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- Author: Inga Clendinnen
- Date Published: June 2005
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- isbn: 9780521616812
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In January 1788, the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales, Australia and a thousand British men and women encountered the people who would be their new neighbors. Dancing with Strangers tells the story of what happened between the first British settlers of Australia and these Aborigines. Inga Clendinnen interprets the earliest written sources, and the reports, letters and journals of the first British settlers in Australia. She reconstructs the difficult path to friendship and conciliation pursued by Arthur Phillip and the local leader 'Bennelong' (Baneelon) that was ultimately destroyed by the assertion of profound cultural differences. A Prize-winning archaeologist, anthropologist and historian of ancient Mexican cultures, Inga Clendinnen has spent most of her teaching career at La Trobe University in Bundoora, Australia. Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan (Cambridge, 1989) and Aztecs: An Interpretation (Cambridge, 1995) are two of her best-known scholarly works; Tiger's Eye: A Memoir, (Scribner, 2001) describes her battle against liver cancer. Reading the Holocaust (Cambridge, 2002) explores World War II genocide from various perspectives.
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Reviews & endorsements
"Clendinnen wrtes so well, with an eye for detail and character that maker her a pleasure to read." The New York Times Book Review
See more reviewsIt is not often that a nonspecialist writing outside her usual area of study does as well as Clendinnen does here. Clendinnen writes understandably for anyone interested in early Australian history.
Choice"In this book Inga Clendinnen breathes new life into early contact between indigenous and incoming peoples in Sydney, Australia, during the late eighteenth century...This book is a wonderful rollercoaster ride through the highs and lows of cross-cultural contact, and is highly recommended." - American Historical Review, Fiona Paisley, Griffith University
"Clendinnen writes in such an engaging, lively, and moving way and with real anthropological insight that the general reader interested in the human condition and relations between races will find her book a stimulating read." - Stefan Petrow, University of Tasmania
"A beautifully written account of cross-cultural relations...a valuable contribution both to ways of understanding colonial pasts and ongoing efforts to pursue reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples today"
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- Date Published: June 2005
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521616812
- length: 346 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.51kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Dancing with strangers
3. Meeting the informants
4. Governor Arthur Phillip
5. Captain John Hunter
6. Surgeon-General John White
7. Judge-Advocate David Collins
8. Watkin Tench, Captain-Lieutenant of Marines
9. Settling in
10. What the Australians saw
11. Arabanoo
12. Enter Baneelon
13. Spearing the Governor
14. 'Coming In'
15. House guests
16. British sexual politics
17. Australian sexual politics
18. Boat trip to Rose Hill
19. Headhunt
20. On disciple
21. Potato thieves
22. Expedition
23. Crime and punishment: Boladeree
24. Barangaroo
25. Tench goes home
26. Phillip goes home
27. Collins goes home
28. Collins reconsiders
29. Baneelon returned
30. Bungaree
31. Enter Mrs Charles Meredith
32. Epilogue.
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