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Roving Mariners
Lynette Russell
其他書名
Australian Aboriginal Whalers and Sealers in the Southern Oceans, 1790–1870
出版
State University of New York Press
, 2012-11-01
主題
Social Science / Anthropology / General
History / Australia & New Zealand
Social Science / Women's Studies
ISBN
1438444257
9781438444253
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=6sxe3uq8qKEC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
For most Australian Aboriginal people, the impact of colonialism was blunt—dispossession, dislocation, disease, murder, and missionization. Yet there is another story of Australian history that has remained untold, a story of enterprise and entrepreneurship, of Aboriginal people seizing the opportunity to profit from life at sea as whalers and sealers. In some cases participation was voluntary; in others it was more invidious and involved kidnapping and trade in women. In many cases, the individuals maintained and exercised a degree of personal autonomy and agency within their new circumstances. This book explores some of their lives and adventures by analyzing archival records of maritime industry, captains' logs, ships' records, and the journals of the sailors themselves, among other artifacts. Much of what is known about this period comes from the writings of Herman Melville, and in this book Melville's whaling novels act as a prism through which relations aboard ships are understood. Drawing on both history and literature,
Roving Mariners
provides a comprehensive history of Australian Aboriginal whaling and sealing.