Eponymy, Encounters, and Local Knowledge in Russian Place Naming in the Pacific Islands, 1804-1830

dc.contributor.authorDouglas, Bronwen
dc.contributor.authorGovor, Elena
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-15T23:13:40Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.date.updated2019-05-05T09:00:07Z
dc.description.abstractThis history of Russian place naming in the Pacific Islands from 1804 to 1830 systematically juxtaposes, correlates, and compares toponyms inscribed in varied genres of Russian texts: map, atlas, journal, narrative, and hydrographic treatise. Its empirical core comprises place names bestowed or recorded by naval officers and naturalists in eastern and northern Pacific archipelagoes during expeditions led by the Baltic German circumnavigators Krusenstern (1803–6), Kotzebue (1815–18), Bellingshausen (1819–21), and Lütke (1826–9). We address the interplay of personality, precedent, circumstance, and embodied encounters in motivating voyagers’ toponymic choices and their material expressions. We consider diverse textual movements from located experience, to specific inscription, to synthesis. Russian toponyms constituted part of the vast stock of historical raw material from which Krusenstern later created the authoritative pioneer Atlas de l'Ocean pacifique (1824–7). This toponymic focus is scaffolding for a dual ethnohistorical inquiry: into the implications for Russian toponymy of Indigenous agency during situated encounters with people and places; and into the relative significance of loca'l knowledge conveyed to Russian voyagers by Indigenous interlocutors, and its presence or absence in particular sets of toponyms or different genres of text.en_AU
dc.description.sponsorshipThe authors gratefully acknowledge funding support from the Australian Research Council (project DP1094562).
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn0018-246xen_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/176991
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.provenancehttp://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/2210..."accepted version can be deposited in institutional repository" from SHERPA/RoMEO Site (as at 30/4/20)
dc.publisherUniversity of Cambridgeen_AU
dc.relationhttp://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP1094562
dc.rights© 2019 Cambridge University Pressen_AU
dc.sourceThe Historical Journalen_AU
dc.titleEponymy, Encounters, and Local Knowledge in Russian Place Naming in the Pacific Islands, 1804-1830en_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage32en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage1en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationDouglas, Bronwen, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationGovor, Elena, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailrepository.admin@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidDouglas, Bronwen, u9111168en_AU
local.contributor.authoruidGovor, Elena, u3760675en_AU
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor210307 - European History (excl. British, Classical Greek and Roman)en_AU
local.identifier.absfor210313 - Pacific History (excl. New Zealand and Maori)en_AU
local.identifier.absseo970121 - Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeologyen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationU1021258xPUB156en_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationu3102795xPUB4322
local.identifier.doi10.1017/S0018246X19000013en_AU
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByU1021258en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://www.cambridge.org/en_AU
local.type.statusAccepted Versionen_AU

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