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Acknowledgments
Introduction Indian Ocean Pearling Worlds
Pedro Machado
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Part I : Co mm odifi c ation Chapter 1
The Pearl Commodity Chain, Early Nineteenth Century to the End of the Second World War Trade, Processing, and Consumption W i l l i a m G . C l a r e n c e - Sm i t h
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Chapter 2
Tea, Pearls, and Pearl Shell Cross-Cultural Trade, Slave Raiding, and the Transformation of Material Worlds—The Sulu Zone, China, and the West, 1349–1898 James Francis Warren 55
Part II: Regulation, Resource Management, and Science Chapter 3
An Uncertain Venture Pearling Labor and Imperial Political Economy in South India and Sri Lanka, ca. 1790–1840 S a mu e l M . O s t r o f f 85
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Chapter 4
The Pearler’s Problem Management, Markets, and the Marine Environment in the Shark Bay Pearling Industry Joseph Christensen
Early Pearling on the Indian Ocean’s Southeast Fringe Michael McCarthy
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Chapter 5
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Part III : R eg ionalization and Glo b alization Chapter 6
Shell Routes Exploring Burma’s Pearling Histories Pedro Machado Pearl Fishing, Migration, and Globalization in the Persian Gulf, Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries Robert Carter
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Chapter 7
Enslaved Africans and the Globalization of Arabian Gulf Pearling M a t t h e w S . H o pp e r
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Chapter 8
Torres Strait in the Moluccas The Transformation of Pearling in the Residency of Ambon, Netherlands Indies, 1890s–1942 Steve Mullins
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Chapter 9
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Part IV : L ife- Stories, Me m ory, and E x p erien c es Chapter 10 Pearling Fortunes
Recovering ‘Alı̄ al-Nahārı̄, a Legendary Red Sea Magnate in the Early Twentieth Century Jonathan Miran 313
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Chapter 11 Pearling Women in North Australia
Indigenous Workers and Wives Julia T. Martínez
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Chapter 12 “Pearly Shells,” a “Perfect Pearl,” and a
Guitar in a Pillowcase Australian Pearling Industry Songs as Community and Personal Memories Karl Neuenfeldt
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Selected Bibliography
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Contributors
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Index
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