Life Under the Jolly Roger Reflections on

During the last couple of decades an ideological battle has raged over the political legacy and cultural symbolism of the "golden age" pirates who roamed the seas between the Caribbean Islands and the Indian Ocean from 1690 to 1725. They are depicted as romanticized villains on the one hand, and as genuine social rebels on the other. Life Under the Folly Roger examines the political and cultural significance of these nomadic outlaws by relating historical accounts to a wide range of theoretical concepts-reaching from Marshall Sahlins and Pierre Clastres to Mao-Tse Tung and Eric J. Hobsbawm via Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault. The meanings of race, gender, sexuality, and disability in golden age pirate communities are analyzed and contextualize, as are the pirates' forms of organization, economy, and ethics.

Gabriel Kuhn is the author of Sober Living for the Revolution: Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics and Women Pirates and the Politics of the Jolly Roger.

Introduction	p. 1
Background	p. 7
Privateers, Buccaneers, Pirates: Matters Of Terminology	p. 7
What "Golden Age?" A Little History	p. 10
"Enemy of His Own Civilization" An Ethnography of Golden Age Piracy	p. 23
"From the Sea": Maritime Nomads	p. 24
"Smooth" vs. "Striated": The Question of Space	p. 27
Pirate Captains and Indian Chiefs: Remembering Pierre Clastres	p. 30
Potlatches, Zero-Production, and Parasitism: Pirate Economy	p. 34
No State, No Accumulation, No History: Pirates as "Primitives"?	p. 43
"Cultural Contact": Pirates and the Non-European People of the Caribbean	p. 46
"Social Origins," or The European Legacy Golden Age Piracy and Cultural Studies	p. 51
Fashion, Food, Fun, Lingo: Circumscribing the Pirate Subculture	p. 52
"Villains of all Nations?": Piracy and (Trans)NationaIity	p. 57
Satanists and Sabbatarians: Piracy and Religion	p. 61
A Colorful Atlantic? Piracy and Race	p. 64
Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and a Co-opted Myth: Piracy and Gender	p. 71
On Sodomites and Prostitutes: Piracy and Sexuality	p. 74
Escaping Discipline and "Biopolitics": The Pirate Body	p. 77
Eye Patches, Hook Hands, and Wooden Legs: Piracy and Disability	p. 80
"Ni dieu, ni maître" Golden Age Piracy and Politics	p. 83
From "Brethren of the Coast" to a "Commonwealth of Outlaws": Pirate Organization	p. 83
Flying the Black Flag: The Jolly Roger	p. 94
Is This Anarchy? Matters of Definition I	p. 95
The War Machine: Reading Piracy with Deleuze and Guattari	p. 96
Tactics: Pirates and Guerrilla Warfare	p. 101
Revolutionary, Radical, and Proletarian Pirates? Matters of Definition II	p. 110
Pirates as Social Bandits: Homage to E.J. Hobsbawm	p. 118
Libertalia: Another Reading	p. 128
Safe Havens, Onshore Settlements, Pirate Utopias: Pirates on Land	p. 136
"Piratical Imperialism," Hypocrisy, and the Merchants' Wrath: Piracy and Capitalism	p. 147
Victims of Circumstance or Bloodthirsty Sadists? Piracy and Violence	p. 153
Vengeance as Justice: Pirate Ethics	p. 158
Dionysus in the West Indies: A Nietzschean Look at Golden Age Piracy	p. 162
Conclusion: The Golden Age Pirates' Political Legacy	p. 173
Notes on Pirate Literature	p. 183
Bibliography	p. 187
Notes	p. 249
Index	p. 249
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