Roving mariners : Australian aboriginal whalers and sealers in the southern oceans, 1790-1870

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Title:

Roving mariners : Australian aboriginal whalers and sealers in the southern oceans, 1790-1870 / Lynette Russell.

Author/Creator:

Russell, Lynette

Publication:

Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, [2012.]

Physical description:

xiv, 221 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.

Series:

Tribal worlds : critical studies in American Indian nation building

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

ch. 1. Whalers, sealers, and mariners: Australian Aboriginal men and women in the Southern Oceans 1790-1870 -- ch. 2. "They are...very fond of the flesh of the whale": Aborigines, whales, whaling, and whalers -- ch. 3. "A new Holland half-caste": Tommy Chaseland: diaspora, autonomy, and hybridity -- ch. 4. "A good man can do anything he makes up his mind to do, no matter what": Tasmanian Aboriginal men and whaling -- ch. 5. "Most of them had native wives": cross-cultural relationships in Southern Australia's sealing industry -- ch. 6. "Those women were free people": domestic spaces, hybridity, and survival -- ch. 7. Remnants, artifacts, and the doing and being of history: a sort of epilogue.

ISBN:

9781438444239

1438444249 (pbk.)

9781438444246 (pbk.)

Subjects:

Whaling -- Tasmania -- History.

Sealing -- Tasmania -- History.

Aboriginal Australians -- Fishing.

Aboriginal Australians -- Commerce.

Sealers (Persons) -- Tasmania -- History

Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Fishing

Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Commerce

Whaling -- Australia -- History.

Sealing -- Australia -- History.

Tasmania -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.

Aborigines

Record ID:

SD_ILS:1104555

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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.

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Chapter 1 Whalers, Sealers, and Mariners: Australian Aboriginal Men and Women in the Southern Oceans 1790-1870	p. 1
Chapter 2 "They are...very fond of the flesh of the whale": Aborigines, Whales, Whaling, and Whalers	p. 23
Chapter 3 "A New Holland Half-Caste": Tommy Chaseland: Diaspora, Autonomy, and Hybridity	p. 47
Chapter 4 "A good man can do anything he makes up his mind to do, no matter what": Tasmanian Aboriginal Men and Whaling	p. 65
Chapter 5 "Most of them had native wives": Cross-Cultural Relationships in Southern Australia's Sealing Industry	p. 93
Chapter 6 "Those women were free people": Domestic Spaces, Hybridity, and Survival	p. 117
Chapter 7 Remnants, Artifacts, and the Doing and Being of History: A Sort of Epilogue	p. 135
Notes	p. 141
Bibliography	p. 183
Index	p. 209

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