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Abstract
of them’, but later lamented that he ‘lost all except a very few, and those not of the best’ quality.2 Dampier’s short account of the shells he found in Shark Bay tantalized the French zoologist, François Péron, who accompanied the Baudin expedition (1800-1804) which visited Western Australia in 1801 and 1803. Péron was determined to find and collect these ‘extraordinary and beautiful shells’ himself when he first visited Shark Bay in June 1801. His account of shell collecting is laden with emotional terms, charting the elation and disappointment he experienced while collecting. Although Péron’s account was unusually verbose, he was not alone in evoking emotional terms in describing shell collecting. Moreover, such accounts must be read in conjunction with the affective language used by early European explorers, particularly the French, to
describe the Western Australian landscapes and seascapes more generally. These early naturalists’ accounts suggest that we read collecting as an emotional practice.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 21-36 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Studies in Western Australian History |
Volume | 35 |
Publication status | Published - Jan 2020 |
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Collecting the West: How collections create Western Australia
Paterson, A. (Investigator 01), Witcomb, A. (Investigator 02), Coles, A. (Investigator 03), Lydon, J. (Investigator 04), Hopper, S. (Investigator 05), Gregory, J. (Investigator 06), Konishi, S. (Investigator 07), Van Gent, J. (Investigator 08) & Burrows, T. (Investigator 09)
ARC Australian Research Council
14/10/16 → 30/06/23
Project: Research
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Centre for the History of Emotions
Lynch, A. (Investigator 01), Van Gent, J. (Investigator 02), White, R. (Investigator 03), Lemmings, D. (Investigator 04), Davidson, J. (Investigator 05), Trigg, S. (Investigator 06), Haskell, Y. (Investigator 07), Holbrook, P. (Investigator 08), Ruys, J. (Investigator 09), Zika, C. (Investigator 10), Konishi, S. (Investigator 11), Gibbard, P. (Investigator 12) & Broomhall, S. (Investigator 13)
ARC Australian Research Council
1/01/11 → 31/12/18
Project: Research