A Peep at the Blacks': A History of Tourism at Coranderrk Aboriginal Station, 1863-1924

Ian Clark

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Open Poland 2015

A Peep at the Blacks'

A History of Tourism at Coranderrk Aboriginal Station, 1863-1924

Ian Clark

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110468243

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About this book

This book is concerned with the history of tourism at the Coranderrk Aboriginal Station at Healesville, northeast of Melbourne, which functioned as a government reserve from 1863 until its closure in 1924. At Coranderrk, Aboriginal mission interests and tourism intersected and the station became a ‘showplace’ of Aboriginal culture and the government policy of assimilation. The Aboriginal residents responded to tourist interest by staging cultural performances that involved boomerang throwing and traditional ways of lighting fires and by manufacturing and selling traditional artifacts. Whenever government policy impacted adversely on the Aboriginal community, the residents of Coranderrk took advantage of the opportunities offered to them by tourism to advance their political and cultural interests. This was particularly evident in the 1910s and 1920s when government policy moved to close the station.

Aboriginal history, Tourism in Australia, Australia, Coranderrk

Author / Editor information

Ian D. Clark, Faculty of Business at Federation University, Ballarat, Australia

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Metric Conversions Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Note to Readers Publicly Available Download PDF	xii
1 Aboriginal Mission Tourism in Nineteenth Century Victoria Publicly Available Download PDF	1
2 Tourism at Coranderrk Publicly Available Download PDF	31
3 Researchers and Coranderrk Publicly Available Download PDF	71
4 International Dignitaries and Their Impressions of Coranderrk Publicly Available Download PDF	108
5 Journalists and Correspondents and Coranderrk Publicly Available Download PDF	133
6 William Barak and Coranderrk Tourism Publicly Available Download PDF	162
7 Coranderrk, Photographs and Tourist Postcards Publicly Available Download PDF	186
8 Tourism at Coranderrk After Its Closure In 1924 Publicly Available Download PDF	215
Index Publicly Available Download PDF	261

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Open Poland
Audience: Local citizens, Scientist and students: history, ethnography, geography, archeology
Pages
- Main content: 264
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 20
- Coloured Illustrations: 49
- Tables: 1
Keywords: Aboriginal history; tourism in Australia; history of tourism; historical geography; Australia

eBook

Published: February 22, 2016
ISBN: 9783110468243

Hardcover

Published: February 22, 2016
ISBN: 9783110468236