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Comparing cross-cultural histories: Christianity, translation, and colonialism in eastern Australia and northwestern America.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Comparing cross-cultural histories: Christianity, translation, and colonialism in eastern Australia and northwestern America./
Author:	Keary, Anne Burnett.
Description:	463 p.
Notes:	Chair: Thomas R. Metcalf.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-09A.
Subject:	History, Asia, Australia and Oceania. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3063427
ISBN:	0493823050

Comparing cross-cultural histories: Christianity, translation, and colonialism in eastern Australia and northwestern America.
Keary, Anne Burnett.

Comparing cross-cultural histories: Christianity, translation, and colonialism in eastern Australia and northwestern America. - 463 p.

Chair: Thomas R. Metcalf.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2002.

This dissertation is a comparative project which examines the missionary translation of indigenous language and culture in two regions of the world which were colonized by Europeans in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: eastern Australia and northwestern America. It examines the ways in which colonial practices of “recognizing” indigenous people as political entities in North America, and not recognizing them in Australia, affected cross-cultural communication between missionaries and indigenous people. The study focuses on the work of the Protestant missionaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and on the work of Lancelot Threlkeld, a missionary for the London Missionary Society, in eastern Australia. In northwestern America, the fur trade and the Euro-American custom of according political recognition to Indian groups, and Indian interest in being recognized, encouraged traders and then missionaries to rely on established North American conventions for representing and interacting with the Indians of the Northwest. It is argued that these conventions both enabled and limited cross-cultural communication: they made certain interactions possible, but precisely because they worked they discouraged more extensive cross-cultural engagement. Missionary investigations of indigenous language and culture remained limited by Christian American conventions for representing Indian people. In Australia, by contrast, no formal commercial relations were established between the British and the Aborigines and the colonists never accorded political recognition to indigenous groups. In this context, and in the absence of established conventions for cross-cultural interaction, Threlkeld, and the Aboriginal people he sought to communicate with, had to improvise. Although Threlkeld remained committed to maintaining colonial hierarchies, his work of translation countered the colonial denigration of Aboriginal people and came to be characterized by an awareness of Aboriginal society and culture as an alternative frame of reference. In America, Europeans sought to translate indigenous language and culture into forms they could use for their own ends; in Australia, the absence of conventions, and the absence of larger ideological pressures to translate indigenous culture into usable forms, opened up other possibilities.

ISBN: 0493823050Subjects--Topical Terms:

626624
History, Asia, Australia and Oceania.

Comparing cross-cultural histories: Christianity, translation, and colonialism in eastern Australia and northwestern America.
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