Pearl-diving: Inscriptions of Desire and Creativity in H.D. and Woolf

2004 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 37-58
Author(s):  
Kathryn Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Pearl Diving

scholarly journals To some of the queries, which were recommended by Sir R. Moray to Sir Phil. Vernatti, President in Java Major, were left un-answered of those that are sound in the history of the R. Society, p. 158, &c

1668 ◽  
Vol 3 (43) ◽  
pp. 863-863
Keyword(s):  
History Of ◽  
Pearl Diving

The greatest length of time, that Pearl-divers in these parts can hold under water, is about a quarter of an hour; and by no other means but Custome. For Pearl-diving lasteth not above Six weeks, and the Divers stay a great while longer under water at the end of the Season, then at the beginning.

Pearl diving in Bahrain

1934 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 450-452
Author(s):  
C. Dalrymple Belgrave
Keyword(s):  
Pearl Diving

Beyond “Man” vs. Nature: Pearling and the Construction of Gender, Generation, and Heritage in Bahrain

Hawwa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-127
Author(s):  
John Thabiti Willis
Keyword(s):  
Human Agency ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Divine Intervention ◽  
History Of ◽  
Arab Gulf ◽  
Pearl Diving

Abstract Heritage sites and studies of the pearling industry in Arab Gulf nations focus predominantly on men who labored as merchants, boat captains, and pearl divers. They represent merchants as having reaped the greatest returns and divers as having endured the greatest hardships over the history of the industry. Recently published memoirs and interviews feature elder men’s recollections of their experiences as divers during their youth; these men focus on the hardships that they endured and attribute their success – even their survival – to chance or divine intervention. British records from the 1930s not only document the tribulations that divers reported; they also, as this article argues, depict human agency – instead of nature, chance, or divine intervention – as the main source of misfortune for divers. These findings trouble “official” representations of pearl diving, particularly the treatment of the divers, at such heritage sites.

scholarly journals Fatal consequences of freshwater pearl diving

The Lancet ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 381 (9861) ◽  
pp. 176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nguyen Hoan Phu ◽  
Nguyen Thi Hoang Mai ◽  
Ho Dang Trung Nghia ◽  
Tran Thi Hong Chau ◽  
Pham Phu Loc ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pearl Diving

Making “A Machine of Pearls” in the Seventeenth Century

2018 ◽  
pp. 128-162
Author(s):  
Molly A. Warsh
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Pearl Fishing ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Pearl Diving

This chapter considers the place of pearls and pearl fisheries in the context of Iberian crisis of the seventeenth century. As arbitristas, or experts, proposed all sorts of solutions intended to address Iberia’s financial and political woes, this zeitgeist of improvement shaped plans for, and reflections on, pearl fishing around the globe. These pearl-fishing proposals drew on a mixture of custom and innovation. As observers of pearl diving in the Caribbean continued to report horrific suffering alongside remarkably autonomous practices by enslaved workers, the Spanish crown supported proposals for Pacific coast fisheries that relied on diverse skilled crew as well as new diving technologies designed to render enslaved workers unnecessary. The chapter focuses on the Cardona Company voyages to California, which included black laborers as well as levantisco, or Levantine, divers and elaborate diving suits. The chapter also considers how the vexing yet appealing complexity of pearls and pearl-fishing settlements were reflected in a 1680 account of Sri Lankan pearl fishing written by Portuguese author João de Ribeiro and in the 1681 Recopilación de leyes de los reynos de las Indias (the reissue of the body of laws) governing the Spanish Indies.

Pearl Diving in Lower California, 1533-1830

1956 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Gerhard
Keyword(s):  
Pearl Diving
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