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Power in Food on the Maritime Frontier: A Zooarchaeology of Enslaved Pearl Divers on Barrow Island, Western Australia.
- Source :
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International Journal of Historical Archaeology . Jun2021, Vol. 25 Issue 2, p544-576. 33p. - Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Use of Indigenous divers on nineteenth-century northwest Australian pearling luggers gave rise to a transregional apparatus of coercion, physical mistreatment, and arguably, slavery. Where accounts of conditions experienced by divers are limited to the documents of contemporary colonial men, our contribution explores a rare archaeological perspective. Zooarchaeological and taphonomic analysis of the Bandicoot Bay campsite, Barrow Island, evokes an exploitative labor relationship inherited from a wider colonial process yet actively renegotiated by its participants through subsistence practices. The operation's pearlers selected a camp that advantaged concerns for labor organization and resource management while their divers seized opportunities for self-directed subsistence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10927697
- Volume :
- 25
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- International Journal of Historical Archaeology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 150169933
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-020-00575-3