TY  - GEN
AU  - Clark,Ian
TI  - 'A Peep at the Blacks'. A History of Tourism at Coranderrk Aboriginal Station, 1863-1924
SN  - 9783110468243
PY  - 2016///
PB  - De Gruyter
KW  - history of tourism
KW  - Aboriginal history
KW  - historical geography
KW  - Australia
KW  - tourism in Australia
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110468243
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/39819
ER  -