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Intermediaries, Servants, or Captives : Disentangling Indigenous labour in D. W. Carnegie’s exploration of the Western Australian desert
Konishi, Shino
Konishi, Shino
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Abstract
In the late fifteenth century, Christopher Columbus kidnapped Caribbean people to train and use them as translators who could inform him about potential dangers and desirable commodities. The Dutch East India Company in the early seventeenth century instructed their captains to capture Indigenous peoples whenever possible for the same purpose.
Then, in the late eighteenth century maritime explorers like James Cook and Matthew Flinders, on occasion, kidnapped Islander and Aboriginal people in the Pacific and Australia as punishment for perceived thefts, and as a means of asserting their authority over seemingly recalcitrant native peoples. Thus, for centuries European explorers felt at liberty to capture Indigenous individuals as a strategy for discovering information about local environments and polities, as well as for enforcing discipline and control.
Keywords
Aboriginal History, Social Sciences, Anthropology, Indigenous Studies
Date
2019
Type
Book chapter
Journal
Book
Labour Lines and Colonial Power: Indigenous and Pacific Islander Labour Mobility in Australia
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Issue
Page Range
27-56
Article Number
ACU Department
Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences
Faculty of Education and Arts
Faculty of Education and Arts
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Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access
License
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Open
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This edition © 2019 ANU Press and Aboriginal History Inc.
This title is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
This title is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode