Russell Roving Mariners

Australian Aboriginal Whalers and Sealers in the Southern Oceans, 1790–1870
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4384-4425-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 235 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Tribal Worlds: Critical Studies in American Indian Nation Building

A comprehensive history of Australian Aboriginal whaling and sealing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Russell, Lynette

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

1. Whalers, Sealers and Mariners: Australian Aboriginal Men and Women in the Southern Oceans 1790–1870

2. “They are … very fond of the flesh of the whale”: Aborigines, Whales, Whaling, and Whalers

3. “A New Holland Half-Caste”: Tommy Chaseland: Diaspora, Autonomy, and Hybridity

4. “A good man can do anything he makes up his mind to do, no matter what”: Tasmanian Aboriginal Men and Whaling

5. “Most of them had native wives”: Cross-Cultural Relationships in Southern Australia’s Sealing Industry

6. “Those women were free people”: Domestic Spaces, Hybridity, and Survival

7. Remnants, Artifacts, and the Doing and Being of History: A Sort of Epilogue

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lynette Russell is an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow and Director of the Monash Indigenous Centre at Monash University. She has written several books, including Appropriated Pasts: Indigenous Peoples and the Colonial Culture of Archaeology (with Ian J. McNiven) and Savage Imaginings: Historical and Contemporary Constructions of Australian Aboriginalities.