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Inventing a colonial dark tourism site: The Derby boab 'prison tree'
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Harman, KE and Grant, E, Inventing a colonial dark tourism site: The Derby boab 'prison tree', Handbook of Prison Tourism, Palgrave MacMillan, J Wilson and S Hodgkinson (ed), United Kingdom, pp. 135-759. ISBN 978-1-137-56134-3 (2017) [Research Book Chapter]
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DOI: doi:10.1057/978-1-137-56135-0
Abstract
A large hollow boab known as the "prison tree" just outside the small town of Derby in Western Australia is a major tourist attraction, visited by thousands of people annually. It is represented as a historic site, where Aboriginal people were incarcerated for opposing "heroic" European pastoralists attempting to found a modern Australia. To understand the "prison tree," it is vital to comprehend the impact on the Aboriginal traditional owners of the expansion of pastoralism to the Kimberley region in the 1880s and 1890s.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Research Book Chapter |
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| Keywords: | Prison Tree, Derby, colonialism, boab tree |
| Research Division: | History and Archaeology |
| Research Group: | Historical Studies |
| Research Field: | Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) |
| Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Group: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Field: | Expanding Knowledge in Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services |
| Author: | Harman, KE (Dr Kristyn Harman) |
| ID Code: | 102592 |
| Year Published: | 2017 |
| Deposited By: | Office of the School of Humanities |
| Deposited On: | 2015-08-28 |
| Last Modified: | 2018-04-27 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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