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

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Russell, Lynette.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Albany : State University of New York Press, Ã2012.
Series:Tribal worlds : critical studies in American Indian nation building.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 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.