Oil, Spermaceti, Ambergris, and Teeth: Products of the Nineteenth- Century Pacific Sperm-Whaling Industry
Nancy Shoemaker considers the four main products harvested in the nineteenth-century sperm whale trade.
Nancy Shoemaker considers the four main products harvested in the nineteenth-century sperm whale trade.
Vicki Luker details the important role played by tabua—or whales’ teeth—in Fijian history.
Jakobina Arch contrasts the modern Japanese whaling industry with expansionist imperial Meiji regime policies.
Jonathan Clapperton details the importance of whaling to Puget Sound Coast Salish people (Puget Salish) along the Pacific Northwest Coast.
Joshua L. Reid concludes that the history of Pacific whaling has undergone a scholarly renaissance.
This article focuses on the contingent practices that constitute oyster aquaculture in contemporary Japan and the multiple forms of more-than-human entanglements that emerge as a result.
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Harriet Ritvo on the notion animal. This is an entry in the KTH EHL VideoDictionary.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Anna L. Tsing is interviewed on her new project, Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene.
Excerpt from Animals and Society in Brazil, from the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries.