Dancing with Strangers

Europeans and Australians at First Contact

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Hardcover | 6 June 2005

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In January 1788, the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales, Australia and a thousand British men and women encountered the people who would be their new neighbors. Dancing with Strangers tells the story of what happened between the first British settlers of Australia and these Aborigines. Inga Clendinnen interprets the earliest written sources, and the reports, letters and journals of the first British settlers in Australia. She reconstructs the difficult path to friendship and conciliation pursued by Arthur Phillip and the local leader 'Bennelong' (Baneelon) that was ultimately destroyed by the assertion of profound cultural differences. A Prize-winning archaeologist, anthropologist and historian of ancient Mexican cultures, Inga Clendinnen has spent most of her teaching career at La Trobe University in Bundoora, Australia. Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan (Cambridge, 1989) and Aztecs: An Interpretation (Cambridge, 1995) are two of her best-known scholarly works; Tiger's Eye: A Memoir, (Scribner, 2001) describes her battle against liver cancer. Reading the Holocaust (Cambridge, 2002) explores World War II genocide from various perspectives.

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"Clendinnen wrtes so well, with an eye for detail and character that maker her a pleasure to read." The New York Times Book Review It is not often that a nonspecialist writing outside her usual area of study does as well as Clendinnen does here. Clendinnen writes understandably for anyone interested in early Australian history. Choice "In this book Inga Clendinnen breathes new life into early contact between indigenous and incoming peoples in Sydney, Australia, during the late eighteenth century...This book is a wonderful rollercoaster ride through the highs and lows of cross-cultural contact, and is highly recommended." - American Historical Review, Fiona Paisley, Griffith University "Clendinnen writes in such an engaging, lively, and moving way and with real anthropological insight that the general reader interested in the human condition and relations between races will find her book a stimulating read." - Stefan Petrow, University of Tasmania "A beautifully written account of cross-cultural relations...a valuable contribution both to ways of understanding colonial pasts and ongoing efforts to pursue reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples today" Anne Keary, Canadian Journal of History

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History Australasian & Pacific History Specific Events & Topics in History Social & Cultural History European History British & Irish History Earliest Times to Present Day Modern History from 1700 to 1900

Introduction
Dancing with strangers
Meeting the informants
Governor Arthur Phillip
Captain John Hunter
Surgeon-General John White
Judge-Advocate David Collins
Watkin Tench, Captain-Lieutenant of Marines
Settling in
What the Australians saw
Arabanoo
Enter Baneelon
Spearing the Governor
'Coming In'
House guests
British sexual politics
Australian sexual politics
Boat trip to Rose Hill
Headhunt
On disciple
Potato thieves
Expedition
Crime and punishment: Boladeree
Barangaroo
Tench goes home
Phillip goes home
Collins goes home
Collins reconsiders
Baneelon returned
Bungaree
Enter Mrs Charles Meredith
Epilogue
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