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The Remarkable Ray of Dublin’s Ringsend
On the common stingray and its longstanding place in the diet, health, and lives of people in Ringsend, Ireland.
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Multimedia | podcast
Interview with Kristina Lyons, author of Vital Decomposition: Soil Practitioners and Life Politics
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Kristina M. Lyons is interviewed on her new book, Vital Decomposition Soil Practitioners and Life Politics.
Multimedia | book, full-text
“Zwischen Staunen und Zweifeln” [Between amazement and doubt]
Full text of Peter Niedersteiner’s dissertation, “Zwischen Staunen und Zweifeln.”
Multimedia | journal article
“A Different Story in the Anthropocene: Brazil’s Post-Colonial Quest for Oil (1930–1975)”
In this article, Antoine Acker provides a different perspective on the Anthropocene.
Perspectives Article
The American Animal Welfare Movement and Pacific Whaling
Lissa Wadewitz juxtaposes the American animal welfare movement with American whaling crews.
Perspectives Article
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.
Perspectives Article
Māori Women in Southern New Zealand’s Shore-Whaling World
Kate Stevens and Angela Wanhalla explore the role of Māori women in nineteenth-century shore-whaling.
Perspectives Article
Newspaper Stories Promoting Local Nineteenth-Century Shore-Based Whaling in Hawaiian Waters
Susan A. Lebo analyzes three decades of newspaper articles reporting whaling in Hawaiian waters from the 1840s.
Perspectives Article
Whaling, Tabua, and Cokanauto
Vicki Luker details the important role played by tabua—or whales’ teeth—in Fijian history.
Perspectives Article
Whaling at the Margins: Drift Whales, Ainu Laborers, and the Japanese State on the Nineteenth-Century Okhotsk Coast
Noell Wilson details Japanese attempts to integrate modern-day Hokkaido into the Tokugawa political sphere via drift-whale policy.