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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Russell, Lynette.

Series:

Tribal worlds : critical studies in American Indian nation building

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aboriginal Australians--History.

Aboriginal Australians.

Aboriginal Australians--Fishing.

Aboriginal Australians--Commerce.

Whaling--Australia--History.

Whaling.

Sealing--Australia--History.

Sealing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A comprehensive history of Australian Aboriginal whaling and sealing.

Contents:

Intro

Roving Mariners: Australian Aboriginal Whalers and Sealers in the Southern Oceans, 1790-1870

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

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

Chapter 2: "They are…very fond of the flesh of the whale": Aborigines, Whales, Whaling, and Whalers

Chapter 3: "A New Holland Half‑Caste": Tommy Chaseland: Diaspora, Autonomy, and Hybridity

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

Chapter 5: "Most of them had native wives": Cross‑Cultural Relationships in Southern Australia's Sealing Industry

Chapter 6: "Those women were free people": Domestic Spaces, Hybridity, and Survival

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

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438444253

1438444257

OCLC:

819816628