Te Aitanga a Hauiti and Paikea: Whale People in the Modern Whaling Era
Billie Lythberg and Wayne Ngata explore what it means to be whale people in the modern whaling period.
Billie Lythberg and Wayne Ngata explore what it means to be whale people in the modern whaling period.
Joshua L. Reid concludes that the history of Pacific whaling has undergone a scholarly renaissance.
This volume provides new histories of Pacific whaling from untold perspectives.
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.
Jason Colby explores the role of one female gray whale in shaping human perceptions of her species and their status in the wild.
Noell Wilson details Japanese attempts to integrate modern-day Hokkaido into the Tokugawa political sphere via drift-whale policy.
Jakobina Arch contrasts the modern Japanese whaling industry with expansionist imperial Meiji regime policies.
Akamine Jun explores foodways of whale meat in Japan, specifically detailing Baird’s-beaked- whaling in eastern Japan.
Bathsheba Demuth looks at the value of whales for indigenous peoples around the Bering Strait.