One of the most famous shipwreck sagas of the 19th century took place on the tropical coast of north-east Australia. In 1836 "The Stirling Castle" was wrecked off the Queensland coast and many of the crew, together with the captain's wife, Eliza Fraser, were marooned on Fraser Island and held captive by Aboriginal people. Early accounts represent Mrs Fraser as an innocent white victim of colonialism and her Aboriginal captors as barbarous savages. These narratives of the white woman and her Aboriginal "captors" impacted significantly on England and the politics of Empire at an early stage in Australia's colonial history. This text critically examines the Eliza Fraser episode by bringing together an interdisciplinary team of authors, artists, members of the Fraser Island Aboriginal community and academics in the areas of cultural and women's studies, literature, history, anthropology, archaeology, the visual and creative arts. Essays in the text include feminist analyses of the incident, investigations of textual and visual representations of Aboriginal people, and considerations of the role played by Eliza Fraser as creative inspiration for the arts. The text explores the constructions of Empire, colonialism, identity, femininity, savagery, "otherness", captivity and survival.

Constructions of Colonialism

McNiven, Ian J.

Travel

Bloomsbury T&T Clark

<p>Archaeology has been complicit in the appropriation of indigenous peoples' pasts worldwide. While tales of blatant archaeological colonialism abound from the era of empire, the process also took more subtle and insidious forms. Ian McNiven and Lynette Rus</p>

Appropriated Pasts: Indigenous Peoples and the Colonial Culture of Archaeology (Archaeology in Society)

Politics & Social Sciences

Russell, Lynette

Archaeology

AltaMira Press

: Archaeology has been complicit in the appropriation of indigenous peoples' pasts worldwide. While tales of blatant archaeological colonialism abound from the era of empire, the process also took more subtle and insidious forms. Ian McNiven and Lynette Russell outline archaeology's "colonial culture" and how it has shaped archaeological practice over the past century. Using examples from their native Australia― and comparative material from North America, Africa, and elsewhere― the authors show how colonized peoples were objectified by research, had their needs subordinated to those of science, were disassociated from their accomplishments by theories of diffusion, watched their histories reshaped by western concepts of social evolution, and had their cultures appropriated toward nationalist ends. The authors conclude by offering a decolonized archaeological practice through collaborative partnership with native peoples in understanding their past.

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Constructions of Colonialism

Appropriated Pasts: Indigenous Peoples and the Colonial Culture of Archaeology (Archaeology in Society)

Appropriated Pasts: Indigenous Peoples and the Colonial Culture of Archaeology (Archaeology in Society)