The pearl-shellers of Torres Strait : resource use, development and decline 1860s-1960s / Regina Ganter
- Bib ID:
- 1851090
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Ganter, Regina
- Description:
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- Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 1994
- xvii, 299 p., [12] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0522845479 (paperback)
- Summary:
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History of Queensland pearl-shell industry; role of Melanesians and Torres Strait Islanders, and Japanese in industry; effect of 1884 Native Labourers Protection Act on preventing Aborigines operating in industry except in mission luggers, they were mostly collecting beche-de-mer, Torres Strait Islanders encouraged to participate in pearling until paternalistic government attitudes caused strike of 1936; domination of Japanese in industry practicing resource raiding and mass extraction caused decline of industry; post World War II state and federal authorities made Torres Strait Islander entry into trochus fishery almost impossible.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Erata slip inserted for plates.
- Bibliography: p. 279-291.
- Subject:
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- Pearl fisheries -- Queensland -- Torres Strait Islands -- History
- Trochus shell fisheries -- Queensland -- Torres Strait Islands -- History
- Divers -- Queensland -- Torres Strait Islands -- History
- Pearl button industry
- Animals - Invertebrates - Crustacea and molluscs - Beche-de-mer / Trepang
- Animals - Invertebrates - Crustacea and molluscs - Trochus
- Race relations - Racial discrimination - Economic
- Fishing
- Torres Strait Islands (Qld.) -- History
- Waiben / Thursday Island (Qld TSI SC54-11)
- Torres Strait Islands (Qld TSI SC54, SC55-05)
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 1994
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