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Author:   Lynette Russell
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781438444239

ISBN 10:   1438444230
Pages:   235
Publication Date:   01 December 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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Russell takes us into a world colonized by white Europeans, where the Aborigines who weren't wiped out by disease found opportunity, freedom and a certain status by joining the whaling fleet. It was a chance for them to rise in a microcosm of the world-a mixture of races all working together. This is an interesting book. It brings to light a part of the world that has largely been ignored or overlooked. Russell does an excellent job showing us that not all Aborigines were exploited. - Portland Book Review This engaging investigation into the lives of Aboriginal workers adds to our understanding of how labor, gender, and indigeneity interacted in the early decades of settler colonialism. What makes these particular Aboriginal peoples unique and interesting is how they traveled as part of an industrial workforce, not necessarily as slaves or servants to whites, but in a niche economy that gave them unusual opportunities and positioned them in relationships with whites that were different from how we usually conceptualize Indigenous-European relations in the nineteenth century. This is a fine book. - Nancy Shoemaker, author of A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America

Author Information

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.

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