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Ben Silverstein

Ben Silverstein

Ben Silverstein is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in History and Lecturer in Indigenous Studies at the Australian National University, and author of Governing Natives: Indirect rule and settler colonialism in Australia’s north (2019).

Ben Silverstein reviews 'Masked Histories: Turtle shell masks and Torres Strait Islander people' by Leah Lui-Chivizhe

December 2022, no. 449 26 November 2022
Ben Silverstein reviews 'Masked Histories: Turtle shell masks and Torres Strait Islander people' by Leah Lui-Chivizhe
Turtles, Leah Lui-Chivizhe shows us in Masked Histories, are at the centre of Torres Strait Islander lives. They follow the Pacific currents and slipstreams, arriving in the Islands in the mating season of surlal, making available their eggs, their meat, their shells. For millennia, marine turtles have provided Islanders with material for subsistence and ceremony – allowing them to practise cere ... (read more)