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Can I read The Pearl Frontier: Indonesian Labor and Indigenous Encounters in Australia’s Northern Trading Network, written by Julia Martínez and Adrian Vickers on EtoBox?
The Pearl Frontier: Indonesian Labor and Indigenous Encounters in Australia’s Northern Trading Network, written by Julia Martínez and Adrian Vickers by Hoefte, Rosemarijn is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Pearl Frontier: Indonesian Labor and Indigenous Encounters in Australia’s Northern Trading Network, written by Julia Martínez and Adrian Vickers about?
The cover of The Pearl Frontier shows a penetrating 1941 portrait of a seemingly middle-aged man in work clothes, Abdoel Gafoer, applying to register as a diver's tender. While reading the book we learn more about him. He was a Muslim from the Indonesian island of Alor, who had been indentured in Kupang, West Timor. In 1923 he made his first voyage to Broome to work in the pearling industry. Here Gafoer lived with an Aboriginal woman and was truly integrated into the Yaruwu community. After a stint back in Indonesia, he returned to Broome just before World War ii broke out. The pearling industry in Broome ceased as a result of the war, but Gafoer made an income by fishing and selling food to servicemen stationed in town. In 1942, the Australian authorities decided to remove the 'Indonesians' from Broome, but Abdoel Gafoer managed to remain, perhaps because he lived outside the township. When the war was over he moved to Darwin to work for a small pearler, but went back to Broome in 1948. He 'was subject to the local effects of instability, manifested in changing economic circumstances and the fluctuations of the pearling industry' (p. 132, see also pp. 1, 56, 77, 97, 111, 115, 119,
Who reads The Pearl Frontier: Indonesian Labor and Indigenous Encounters in Australia’s Northern Trading Network, written by Julia Martínez and Adrian Vickers?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Social Sciences.
- Author
- Hoefte, Rosemarijn
- Publisher
- Brill; Brill Academic Publishers (ISSN 0006-2294)
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences