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Pearl-Shellers Of Torres Strait
Regina Ganter
其他書名
Resource Use, Development and Decline, 1860s–1960s
出版Simon and Schuster, 1990-10-31
主題Social Science / Anthropology / General
ISBN05228728839780522872880
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=6m5DEQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In an ethnically stratified work force, Japanese, South Sea Islander, Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal divers brought up from the sea floor the shell that produced mother-of-pearl, and sometimes pearls. Many men died at this dangerous work.

This was an industry that could have given the indigenous peoples of Torres Strait an occupation that preserved their identity and independence. Yet in spite of a co-operative lugger scheme that operated fairly successfully in the early twentieth century, a real independence was not achieved. And a resource that could have been conserved by small-scale indigenous harvesting was depleted time and again by the colonial practices of resource-raiding and mass extraction.

Regina Ganter charts the progress of pearl-shelling from its heyday through its several crises resulting from overfishing to its present cautious management. The book is greatly enhanced by the oral testimony of divers and boat-owners.