- Title
- The tourism spectacle of fire making at Coranderrk Aboriginal Station, Victoria, Australia–a case study
- Creator
- Clark, Ian; McMaster, Sarah; Roberts, Phillip; Cahir, David (Fred); Wright, Wendy
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/174377
- Identifier
- vital:14807
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873X.2019.1572160
- Identifier
- ISBN:1743-873X (ISSN)
- Abstract
- This paper explores the emergence of traditional Aboriginal fire making practices as a tourism spectacle at the Coranderrk Aboriginal Station near Healesville, Victoria, Australia, in the late nineteenth century. Coranderrk was an important site where domestic and international tourism intersected with efforts of the state to Europeanise and Christianise its Aboriginal residents. It highlights the agency of Aboriginal people in this emergence. Through a survey of the myriad uses of fire in Aboriginal society, it contrasts Aboriginal methods of making fire with European methods as a way of contextualising the tourist interest in fire making demonstrations. Fire making was the perfect foil for tourism – it easily incorporated aspects of performance – such as the build, the show, the closer, and the hat. The skill of fire making was a demonstration of ‘Aboriginality’, and its appropriation by tourism was a means by which a traditional craft was maintained and sustained. © 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis Ltd.
- Relation
- Journal of Heritage Tourism Vol. 15, no. 3 (2020), p. 249-266
- Rights
- Metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Rights
- Copyright @ 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- Culturally sensitive
- Subject
- 1205 Urban and Regional Planning; 1506 Tourism; 1604 Human Geography; Coranderrk Aboriginal Station; Fire making; Indigenous tourism; Tourism performance
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