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Xunáan Kab Rhythms: Native Bees and Ecological Change in Yucatan, Mexico
This entry focuses on native bees and their role as narrators of regional social and ecological histories.
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Stars, Mules, and Interferometers in Early Transnational Astronomy in 1960s Chile
This essay examines the multiple factors intertwined in the development of transnational astronomy in Chile in the 1960s.
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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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Views from Above: Light Airplanes and Wildlife Research and Management in the Serengeti during the 1950s and 1960s
In the 1960s, real-time aerial observations supported mixed forms of land use in African national parks.
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ASLE EcoCast: Justice Matters: Bénédicte Boisseron, Animal Studies, and Racial Justice
In this episode of ASLE’s official podcast, Jemma Deer and Brandon Galm interviews Bénédicte Boisseron, author of Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question.
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“Zwischen Staunen und Zweifeln” [Between amazement and doubt]
Full text of Peter Niedersteiner’s dissertation, “Zwischen Staunen und Zweifeln.”
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Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question
Excerpt from Bénédicte Boisseron’s book Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question.
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.