124th Annual Meeting (January 7-10, 2010): New Research in the Global History of Pearl Diving

New Research in the Global History of Pearl Diving

AHA Session 202

Saturday, January 9, 2010: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM

Manchester Ballroom I (Hyatt)

Chair:

Micheline Cariño, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California Sur

Papers:

"No Life As Infernal or Desperate": Enslaved Pearl Diving in the Caribbean in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Molly A. Warsh, Texas A&M University

Diving for the Sky's Tears: The Pearling Industry in the Dahlak Archipelago, Red Sea, 1860s–1930s
Jonathan Miran, Western Washington University

Pearls, Globalization, and the African Diaspora in the Arabian Gulf in the Age of Empire
Matthew S. Hopper, California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo

Comment:

Micheline Cariño, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California Sur

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