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.
Ryan Tucker Jones recounts how environmental activist organizations came into conflict with indigenous groups in the Bering Straight.
Adam Paterson and Chris Wilson consider Ngarrindjeri contributions to Southern Australia’s nineteenth-century whaling industry.
Jonathan Clapperton details the importance of whaling to Puget Sound Coast Salish people (Puget Salish) along the Pacific Northwest Coast.
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.
Short profiles of university and course syllabi, and collaborative syllabi projects on Environment and Society.
In 1966, historian Albert Silbert highlighted the longstanding importance of fire in the traditional Portuguese rural economy, at a time when such practices were being erased from the landscape.
Tropical humidity necessitated a quest for rust-proof insect pins, determining which specimens could be preserved, which tools could be used, and ultimately what knowledge could be produced in the Dutch East Indies.
