- Title
- The cultural interactions of Aborigines with Whales, Whalers and Whaling in southwest Victoria 1828-1850
- Creator
- Eldridge, Richard
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- Text; Thesis; Masters
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/99875
- Identifier
- vital:10437
- Abstract
- The primary aim of this thesis is to reconstruct the history of Aboriginal cultural associations with whales and whaling in southwest Victoria in the nineteenth century. Despite there being a considerable corpus of information about Aboriginal peoples and whaling in southeast South Australia and southern New South Wales, there is a relative poverty of information on southwest Victoria. One of the primary objectives of this thesis is to offer explanations for this absence of information. Through an analysis of the Convincing Ground massacre that is believed to have taken place in the early period of whaling at Portland Bay, it will be argued that the violence characterised by this event fundamentally transformed race relations at Portland to such an extent that Aboriginal people avoided interaction with whalers. The rationale for this research is twofold: first to contribute to the history of frontier relations in Victoria; second, to reconstruct from archival sources the cultural and economic associations between Victorian Aboriginal people and whalers.; Master of Business (Research)
- Publisher
- Federation University Australia
- Rights
- Copyright Richard Eldridge
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Whaling; Aborginal culture; Portland; Economic associations; Convincing ground massacre
- Full Text
- Thesis Supervisor
- Clark, Ian
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