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Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 Meeting the Waylo : Aboriginal Encounters in the Archipelago
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'This book explores the experiences of Indigenous Australians who participated in Australian exploration enterprises in the early nineteenth century. These Indigenous travellers, often referred to as ‘guide’s’, ‘native aides’, or ‘intermediaries’ have already been cast in a variety of ways by historians: earlier historiographies represented them as passive side-players in European heroic efforts of Discovery, while scholarship in the 1980s, led by Henry Reynolds, re-cast these individuals as ‘black pioneers’. Historians now acknowledge that Aborigines ‘provided information about the customs and languages of contiguous tribes, and acted as diplomats and couriers arranging in advance for the safe passage of European parties’. 

'More recently, Indigenous scholars Keith Vincent Smith and Lynnette Russell describe such Aboriginal travellers as being entrepreneurial ‘agents of their own destiny’. 

'While historiography has made up some ground in this area Aboriginal motivations in exploring parties, while difficult to discern, are often obscured or ignored under the title ‘guide’ or ‘intermediary’. Despite the different ways in which they have been cast, the mobility of these travellers, their motivations for travel and experience of it have not been thoroughly analysed. 

'Some recent studies have begun to open up this narrative, revealing instead the ways in which colonisation enabled and encouraged entrepreneurial mobility, bringing about ‘new patterns of mobility for colonised peoples’.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Nedlands, Inner Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: UWA Publishing , 2020 .
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      Extent: 264p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published January 2020.
      ISBN: 9781760801137

Works about this Work

y separately published work icon Books of the Year Peter Rose (presenter), Southbank : Australian Book Review, Inc. , 2020 23440064 2020 single work podcast

'In today's episode, Peter Rose talks to writers Beejay Silcox and Billy Griffiths about what they’ve been reading during this tumultuous year. They also speculate about some highlights of 2021. For those looking for a more extensive listing of this year's finest works, our Books of the Year features more than 30 different ABR critics nominating their favourite releases.' (Production summary)

Tiffany Shellam Explores the Experiences of Aboriginal Mediators in Early Nineteenth-century North-Western Australia Alison Jones , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: History Australia , vol. 17 no. 4 2020; (p. 784-785)

— Review of Meeting the Waylo : Aboriginal Encounters in the Archipelago Tiffany Shellam , 2020 multi chapter work criticism
'This book is a history of story-making about the experiences of three Indigenous Australian travellers: Bundle (a Dharawal man), Boongaree (a Kurringgai man), and Migeo (a man of Whadjuk Nyungar). In the first decades of the nineteenth century, these men took part in various surveying expeditions that were completing work Matthew Flinders had begun with his 1801 coastal mapping of ‘Terra Australis’. The expeditions were on the north-western coast, the country of the ‘Waylo’ – a generic term used by Nyungar people in the southwest to refer to their northern neighbours. The Aboriginal travellers were from the south and southeast.'

 (Introduction)

 
When Collaboration Is a Handshake Away Victoria Laurie , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 5 December 2020; (p. 14)

— Review of Meeting the Waylo : Aboriginal Encounters in the Archipelago Tiffany Shellam , 2020 multi chapter work criticism ; Shaking Hands on the Fringe: Negotiating the Aboriginal World at King George’s Sound Tiffany Shellam , 2009 single work biography
Books of the : Year A Look Back at Some of the Year's Finest Works Sarah Holland-Batt , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 427 2020;
[Review] Meeting the Waylo : Aboriginal Encounters in the Archipelago Annemarie McLaren , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , vol. 51 no. 4 2020; (p. 502-503)

— Review of Meeting the Waylo : Aboriginal Encounters in the Archipelago Tiffany Shellam , 2020 multi chapter work criticism

'Shellam writes that Meeting the Waylo is a ‘little book’, yet its immersion in multiple strands of scholarship, its impressive archival research, and its clear methodology make it a compelling and significant one. This is slow, well-crafted history; slow in the sense that three historical episodes lie at the heart of this book, and slow in the sense that the research, relationships, and insights undergirding it have accrued over time. Yet in this lies its power and its significance for historians, archivists, and curators of cross-cultural, Australian and Indigenous worlds.' (Introduction)

[Review] Meeting the Waylo : Aboriginal Encounters in the Archipelago Annemarie McLaren , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , vol. 51 no. 4 2020; (p. 502-503)

— Review of Meeting the Waylo : Aboriginal Encounters in the Archipelago Tiffany Shellam , 2020 multi chapter work criticism

'Shellam writes that Meeting the Waylo is a ‘little book’, yet its immersion in multiple strands of scholarship, its impressive archival research, and its clear methodology make it a compelling and significant one. This is slow, well-crafted history; slow in the sense that three historical episodes lie at the heart of this book, and slow in the sense that the research, relationships, and insights undergirding it have accrued over time. Yet in this lies its power and its significance for historians, archivists, and curators of cross-cultural, Australian and Indigenous worlds.' (Introduction)

When Collaboration Is a Handshake Away Victoria Laurie , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 5 December 2020; (p. 14)

— Review of Meeting the Waylo : Aboriginal Encounters in the Archipelago Tiffany Shellam , 2020 multi chapter work criticism ; Shaking Hands on the Fringe: Negotiating the Aboriginal World at King George’s Sound Tiffany Shellam , 2009 single work biography
Tiffany Shellam Explores the Experiences of Aboriginal Mediators in Early Nineteenth-century North-Western Australia Alison Jones , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: History Australia , vol. 17 no. 4 2020; (p. 784-785)

— Review of Meeting the Waylo : Aboriginal Encounters in the Archipelago Tiffany Shellam , 2020 multi chapter work criticism
'This book is a history of story-making about the experiences of three Indigenous Australian travellers: Bundle (a Dharawal man), Boongaree (a Kurringgai man), and Migeo (a man of Whadjuk Nyungar). In the first decades of the nineteenth century, these men took part in various surveying expeditions that were completing work Matthew Flinders had begun with his 1801 coastal mapping of ‘Terra Australis’. The expeditions were on the north-western coast, the country of the ‘Waylo’ – a generic term used by Nyungar people in the southwest to refer to their northern neighbours. The Aboriginal travellers were from the south and southeast.'

 (Introduction)

 
Books of the : Year A Look Back at Some of the Year's Finest Works Sarah Holland-Batt , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 427 2020;
y separately published work icon Books of the Year Peter Rose (presenter), Southbank : Australian Book Review, Inc. , 2020 23440064 2020 single work podcast

'In today's episode, Peter Rose talks to writers Beejay Silcox and Billy Griffiths about what they’ve been reading during this tumultuous year. They also speculate about some highlights of 2021. For those looking for a more extensive listing of this year's finest works, our Books of the Year features more than 30 different ABR critics nominating their favourite releases.' (Production summary)

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