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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP160100415
Funding Status
Active
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Funded Activity Summary
How Meston's 'Wild Australia Show' shaped Australian Aboriginal history. How Meston's 'Wild Australia Show' shaped Australian Aboriginal history. This project aims to produce an authoritative and original interpretation of the Wild Australia Show (1892–93), staged by a diverse company of Aboriginal people for metropolitan audiences. The Show will be the focus of an interdisciplinary study of performance, photography, collections and race relations in colonial Australia, using archival and visual records. The project will situate the Show in local, national and transnational narratives informed by contemporary Indigenous perspectives. This research should illuminate Aboriginal agency in the ensemble, reconnect Aboriginal kin to performers, and chart changing concepts of race at a critical juncture in Australian history.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 09-2016
End Date: 12-2022
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $360,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Historical Studies | Architectural History and Theory | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History | Museum Studies
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health - Determinants of Health | Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | Understanding Australia's Past |
