Macassan History and Heritage : Journeys, Encounters and Influences.

Preliminary pages -- 1. Understanding the Macassans: A region aproach -- 2. Studying trepangers -- 3. Crossing the great divide: Australia and eastern Indonesia -- 4. Histories with traction: Macassan contact in the framework of Muslim Australian history -- 5. Interpreting the Macassans: Language exchange in historical encounters -- 6. Unbirri's pre-Macassan legacy, or how the Yolngu became black -- 7. 'An Arnhem Land adventure': Representations of Macassan-Indigenous Australian connections in popular geographical magazines -- 8. Rock art evidence for Macassan-Aboriginal contact in northwestern Arnhem Land -- 9. Drug substances introduced by the Macassans: The mystery of the tobacco pipe -- 10. Tangible heritage of the Macassan-AbAboriginal encounter in contemporary South Sulawesi -- 11. Traditional and 'modern' trepang fisheries on the border of the Indonesian and Australian -- 12. Travelling the 'Malay Road': Recognising the heritage significance of the Macassan maritime trade route -- Contributors -- Index.

This book presents inter-disciplinary perspectives on the maritime journeys of the Macassan trepangers who sailed in fleets of wooden sailing vessels known as praus from the port city of Makassar in southern Sulawesi to the northern Australian coastline.

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