xvii,299pp, index,bibliography, notes, glossary, appendices, bw ills, maps, tables. Pictorial card. Near new. In an ethnically stratified workforce Aboriginal, South Sea Islander, Torres Strait Islander and Japanese divers brought up shell that produced mother-of-pearl, and sometimes pearls. This volume charts the progress of pearl shelling from its heyday through its several crises resulting from overfishing to its present cautious management. Greatly enhanced by the oral testimony of divers and boat owners. Size: 8vo.

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Titolo

The Pearl-Shellers of Torres Strait. Resource Use, Development and Decline, 1860s-1960s.

Editore

Melbourne University Press, Melbourne

Data di pubblicazione

1994

Lingua

Inglese

ISBN 10

0522845479

ISBN 13

9780522845471

Rilegatura

Soft Cover

Edizione

First Paperback.

Condizione

Fine

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In The Pearl-Shellers of Torres Strait Regina Ganter charts the progress of pearl-shelling from its heyday through its several crises resulting from overfishing to its present cautious management. The book is greatly enhanced by the oral testimony of divers and boat-owners.

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Regina Ganter is a lecturer at Griffith University.

Dr Regina Ganter has cone extensive fieldwork as a consultant for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. A lecturer at Griffith University, she presently holds a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Australian National University to explore the dynamics of interaction between Asians, Aborigines and Europeans at the Australian frontier.

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