Indigenous Networks: Mobility, Connections and Exchange

326 Pages·2014·2.2 MB·English

by  Jane Carey, Jane Lydon (eds.)

Indigenous Networks
This edited volume argues for the importance of recovering Indigenous par-
ticipation within global networks of imperial power and wider histories of
‘transnational’ connections. It takes up a crucial challenge for new impe-
rial and transnational histories—that is, to explore the historical role of
colonised and subaltern communities in these processes and their legacies in
the present. Bringing together prominent and emerging scholars who have
begun to explore Indigenous networks and ‘transnational’ encounters, and
to consider the broader signifi cance of ‘extra-local’ connections, exchanges
and mobility for Indigenous peoples, this work engages closely with some
of the key historical scholarship on transnationalism and the networks of
European imperialism. Chapters deploy a range of analytic scales, includ-
ing global, regional and intra-Indigenous networks, and methods, including
histories of ideas and cultural forms and biography, as well as exploring
contemporary legacies. In drawing these perspectives together, this book
charts an important new direction in research.
Jane Carey is a lecturer in history at the University of Wollongong.
Jane Lydon is the inaugural Wesfarmers Chair in Australian History and an
Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2010–14) at the University of
Western Australia.
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Indigenous Networks
Mobility, Connections and Exchange
Edited by Jane Carey and
Jane Lydon
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Indigenous networks : mobility, connections and exchange / edited by
Jane Carey and Jane Lydon.
pages cm — (Routledge studies in cultural history ; 29)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Indigenous peoples—Politics and government. 2. Indigenous
peoples—Social conditions. 3. Indigenous peoples—Research.
4. Europe—Colonies—History. 5. Imperialism—Social aspects—
History. 6. Globalization—Social aspects—History. 7. Social
networks—History. 8. Social mobility—History. 9. Social
exchange—History. 10. Transnationalism—History. I. Carey,
Jane, 1972– II. Lydon, Jane, 1965–
GN380.I3466 2014
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Contents
List of Figures ix
Acknowledgements xi
Notes on Text xiii
Introduction
Indigenous Networks: Historical Trajectories
and Contemporary Connections 1
JANE CAREY AND JANE LYDON
PART I
British Imperial Networks in the Mid-Nineteenth
Century: Colonial Governance, Humanitarianism and
Indigenous Action
1 The Slave-Owner and the Settler 29
CATHERINE HALL
2 Indigenous Engagements with Humanitarian Governance:
The Port Phillip Protectorate of Aborigines and
‘Humanitarian Space’ 50
ALAN LESTER
3 ‘The Lying Name of “Government”’: Empire, Mobility
and Political Rights 75
ANN CURTHOYS
PART II
Mobility, Hybridity and Networks: Indigenous Lives
and Legacies
4 ‘The Singular Transcultural Space’: Networks of Ships,
Mariners, Voyagers and ‘Native’ Men at Sea, 1790–1870 97
LYNETTE RUSSELL
viii Contents
5 Indigenous Interlocutors: Networks of Imperial Protest
and Humanitarianism in the Mid-Nineteenth Century 114
ZOË LAIDLAW
6 Picturing Macassan–Australian Histories: Odoardo
Beccari’s 1873 Photographs of the ‘Orang-Mereghi’
and Indigenous Authenticity 140
JANE LYDON
7 ‘Mr. Moses Goes to England’: Twentieth-Century Mobility
and Networks at the Six Nations Reserve, Ontario 167
CECILIA MORGAN
8 A ‘Happy Blending’? Maori Networks, Anthropology and
‘Native’ Policy in New Zealand, the Pacific and Beyond 184
JANE CAREY
PART III
Indigenous Activist Networks: From the Late Nineteenth
Century to the Present
9 Contesting the Empire of Paper: Cultures of Print and
Anti-Colonialism in the Modern British Empire 219
TONY BALLANTYNE
10 Geographies of Solidarity and the Black Political Diaspora
in London before 1914 241
CAROLINE BRESSEY
11 Marching to a Different Beat: The Influence of the
International Black Diaspora on Aboriginal Australia 262
JOHN MAYNARD
12 Fifty Years of Indigeneity: Legacies and Possibilities 273
RAVI DE COSTA
Epilogue: Indigenising Transnationalism? Challenges for
New Imperial and Cosmopolitan Histories 286
JANE CAREY
Contributors 295
Index 299
Figures
2.1 Thomas Farmer and Family at Coranderrk Aboriginal
Station, c.1876–1877. Board for the Protection of Aborigines
Photographic Collection, Museum Victoria. 62
2.2 Carl Walter, Ellen, ca. 1860–1880. State Library of Victoria. 65
5.1 Frontispiece (portrait of Peter Jones). Peter Jones, Life and
Journals of Kah-ke-wa-quo-na-by (Toronto, 1850). © British
Library Board, General Reference Collection 4907.c.29. 120
5.2 David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, Rev. Peter
Jones or Kahkewaquonaby, 1803 –1 856. Indian Chief and
Missionary in Canada. Scottish National Portrait Gallery. 121
5.3 Catherine Sutton/Nahnebahwequa, no date. The Grey
Roots Archival Collection. 122
5.4 Frontispiece (portrait of Robert Campbell). Robert Campbell,
A Pilgrimage to My Motherland (London: W. J. Johnson,
1861). British Library Board, General Reference
Collection 10096.a.28. 126
6.1 Map showing Sulawesi and the coast of Arnhem Land
in northern Australia. Courtesy of NationMaster.com
2003–2013. 141
6.2 Louis Le Breton, Emile Lassalle, Thierry Frères, lithograph,
Pecheurs de tripang a la Baie Raffles [T repang Fishermen,
Raffles Bay ], 1846. National Library of Australia.
an20801380. 143
6.3 Paul Foelsche, Trepang Fishery Station, Port Essington,
26 March 1875. State Library of South Australia. 144
6.4 Odoardo Beccari, O rang Mereghi. Australiani del Nord.
Fotografato di Macassar (Selebes) 1873, 1873. Collection
Enrico H. Giglioli, copia 4191. Museo Nazionale Preistorico
Etnografico ‘Luigi Pigorini’, Rome. 145
6.5 Detail from Figure 6.4 showing boys. 146