Trepang and wangkang; The China trade of eighteenth-century Makassar c.1720s-1840s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2882621 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Holly Sutherland (0000-0003-3126-4749, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, corresponding author), Heather Sutherland (1. [email protected]) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 156 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 451-472 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0006-2294 • E-ISSN: 2213-4379 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/22134379-90003835 |
| OpenAlex | W2007590139 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
Trepang and wangkangThe China trade of eighteenth-century Makassar c. 1720s-1840sThe sources are unanimous: trepang.arerepulsive. 1Alfred Russel Wallace (1869:329), in one of the kinder descriptions, likened them to 'sausages which have been rolled in mud and then thrown up the chimney', while John Crawfurd (1820,111:441) found that 'the trepang is an unseemly looking substance'.The more scientific dr.J.C. Koningsberger (1904) catalogued their habits when disturbed: evacuation of long tendrils of slime, or indeed the entire gut, culminating in some sub-species with thedissolution of the skin, leaving the animal a mere puddle of sludge.A relatively neutral account depicts trepang as being 'usually a span in length, round, dark brown on top, reddish underneath, covered in small warts, and with eight coarse feelers on the snout' (Tripang 1869:1124), while the Encyclopaedie van Nederlandsch-Indië
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Chimney (locomotive · China · Creatures · Geography · Meteorology · Natural (archaeology · Asian Studies and History · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Philippine History and Culture
Piracy in the Offing
Traditional and ‘modern’ trepang fisheries on the border of the Indonesian and Australian fishing zones
Understanding the Macassans
Chinese Economic Dominance in Southeast Asia
Luxury seafood consumption in China and the intensification of coastal livelihoods in Southeast Asia
The Archaeology of Trading Systems, Part 1
Manifold Connections
Macassan History and Heritage
All about Money
Amphibious anthropology
Re‐assessing regional chronologies for island southeast Asian voyaging to Aboriginal Australia
Re‐evaluating the timing of the Indonesian trepang industry in north‐west Arnhem Land
Swindling in the Shop
| Citations per year | 0.59 |
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| Citation span | 2004 - 2023 (20) |
| Highly cited | No |