The pearl rush in Aru, 1916; A case study in writing commodity history in Southeast Asia
<p>While the long history of “commerce” in Southeast Asia is well studied, less examination has been made of the histories of capitalism, particularly in terms of the encounters that took place around commodities. This article provides a translation and analysis of a description of Dobo on Aru...
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doaj-7b40eec0129047ac92c01e931f9211f72021-07-08T04:08:08ZengUniversity of IndonesiaWacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia1411-22722407-68992019-09-0120345747910.17510/wacana.v20i3.801529The pearl rush in Aru, 1916; A case study in writing commodity history in Southeast AsiaAdrian Vickers0University of Sydney<p>While the long history of “commerce” in Southeast Asia is well studied, less examination has been made of the histories of capitalism, particularly in terms of the encounters that took place around commodities. This article provides a translation and analysis of a description of Dobo on Aru in 1911. At the time it was a “Klondike”, on what Julia Martínez and I have termed “the pearl frontier”. The Aru islands were the site for an Australian-led pearl shell consortium that ran from the beginning of the twentieth century until the 1940s, which brought in a large number of Japanese divers and other Asian and Pacific workers. Examining relations around the pearling industry provides a number of general methodological points of entry into the ways that commodity relations created encounters with modernity.</p>http://wacana.ui.ac.id/index.php/wjhi/article/view/801commodity historyarupearl shellmaterialismnew materialism |
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The pearl rush in Aru, 1916; A case study in writing commodity history in Southeast Asia |
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The pearl rush in Aru, 1916; A case study in writing commodity history in Southeast Asia |
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University of Indonesia |
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Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia |
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1411-2272 2407-6899 |
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2019-09-01 |
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<p>While the long history of “commerce” in Southeast Asia is well studied, less examination has been made of the histories of capitalism, particularly in terms of the encounters that took place around commodities. This article provides a translation and analysis of a description of Dobo on Aru in 1911. At the time it was a “Klondike”, on what Julia Martínez and I have termed “the pearl frontier”. The Aru islands were the site for an Australian-led pearl shell consortium that ran from the beginning of the twentieth century until the 1940s, which brought in a large number of Japanese divers and other Asian and Pacific workers. Examining relations around the pearling industry provides a number of general methodological points of entry into the ways that commodity relations created encounters with modernity.</p> |
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