Roving Mariners

Roving Mariners
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By:"Lynette Russell"
"History"
Published on 2012-11-01 by SUNY Press

In The \u003cb\u003eArchaeology of\u003c/b\u003e Whaling in Southern \u003cb\u003eAustralia\u003c/b\u003e and New Zealand, ed. S. \u003cbr\u003e\nLawrence and M. Staniforth, 48–54. Australian Institute for Maritime \u003cb\u003eArchaeology\u003c/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\nSpecial Publication, no. 10. Gundaroo: Brolga Press for the \u003cb\u003eAustralasian\u003c/b\u003e Society\u003cbr\u003e\n ...

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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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