This book analyses the 150-year history of continuous contact between Aboriginal people and non-Aboriginal people in the Darwin region of the Northern Territory of Australia after the European invasion in 1869 to the present day.

It explores the role Aboriginal fringe camps served, and still do, as places of interface between Aboriginal people and non-Aboriginal people in the context of ongoing colonialism after colonisation. The book argues that Aboriginal fringe camps provide much potential for elucidating aspects of Aboriginal responses to the European invasion and, in a contemporary context, bear distinct evidence of a cultural nature that associates their origins, use, purpose, and functions predominantly with Aboriginal people. It contributes a new and innovative theoretical model that will enable readers to conceive how insights about Aboriginal behaviour in the context of Aboriginal fringe camps were achieved. The model is informed by the frameworks of colonialism and, innovatively, philosophy.

Contributing new theoretical knowledge to contact histories and relations between Europeans and Indigenous peoples, the book will be important to researchers in the archaeology of Australia and those concerned with Indigenous Studies.

About the Author

Kellie Pollard is a Wiradjuri Koori from New South Wales, southeast Australia. Kellie obtained her PhD in archaeology in 2019 as a candidate at Flinders University in South Australia. Now currently working as a research fellow at Charles Darwin University in the Northern Territory of Australia, Kellie specialises in Indigenous knowledges and philosophies and Indigenous methodologies in research in addition to her interests in historical and contemporary issues impacting the Indigenous peoples of Australia.

Book Information
ISBN 9780367348458
Author Kellie Pollard
Format Hardback
Page Count 208
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 453g