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Roving Mariners - Australian Aboriginal Whalers and Sealers in the Southern Oceans, 1790-1870 (Hardcover)
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Roving Mariners - Australian Aboriginal Whalers and Sealers in the Southern Oceans, 1790-1870 (Hardcover)
Series: SUNY series, Tribal Worlds: Critical Studies in American Indian Nation Building
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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."
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