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Title: | Cultural conflict in text and materiality: the impact of words and lead on the northwest Queensland colonial frontier, Australia | Contributor(s): | Davidson, Iain (author) ; Burke, Heather (author); Sullivan, Lance (author); Wallis, Lynley A (author); Artym, Ursula (author); Barker, Bryce (author) | Publication Date: | 2019 | DOI: | 10.1080/00438243.2020.1711153 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/32573 | Abstract: | The “Frontier Wars” in Australia were a series of conflicts carried out at different times and places by various military and civilian actors between 1788 and c1938. One of the principal agents in this violence in the colony of Queensland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was the paramilitary Native Mounted Police (NMP), who were tasked with protecting settlers from Aboriginal resistance. This paper examines written and oral accounts of frontier conflict between settlers, Aboriginal people and the NMP in northwest Queensland and places them into the context of the archaeological evidence from an NMP camp site. It thus emphasizes the different types of stories that arise from different sources of historical knowledge and how oral histories transformed into print interact with oral histories of subaltern peoples. Investigation of the archaeology of related sites suggests that they refer to events at a quite different scale. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Grant Details: | ARC/DP160100307 | Source of Publication: | World Archaeology, 51(5), p. 724-740 | Publisher: | Routledge | Place of Publication: | United Kingdom | ISSN: | 1470-1375 0043-8243 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 430107 Historical archaeology (incl. industrial archaeology) 450103 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural history |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280113 Expanding knowledge in history, heritage and archaeology 130703 Understanding Australia’s past |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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Appears in Collections: | Journal Article School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences |
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