Kailiopio and the Tropicbird
Another front of extractive industry in the 1850s and 1860s was guano mining. Kailiopio was one of approximately one thousand Native Hawaiian men who worked on remote equatorial Pacific Islands mining bird guano. Chapter four bridges themes in animal studies and the history of the body to explore th...
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University of California Press
2018
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520295063.003.0005 |
| Summary: | Another front of extractive industry in the 1850s and 1860s was guano mining. Kailiopio was one of approximately one thousand Native Hawaiian men who worked on remote equatorial Pacific Islands mining bird guano. Chapter four bridges themes in animal studies and the history of the body to explore the guano “workscape.” The guano island work environment was a hybrid world made and maintained interdependently by both human and avian actors. Millions of nesting seabirds, and their engagements in transoceanic “work”—connecting distant feeding grounds with local breeding grounds—constituted the “nature” of Hawaiian migrant workers’ experiences of this remote world. |
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