Perspectives Article
Whales and Whaling in Puget Sound Coast Salish History and Culture
Jonathan Clapperton details the importance of whaling to Puget Sound Coast Salish people (Puget Salish) along the Pacific Northwest Coast.
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Perspectives Article
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.
Perspectives Article
Whale Peoples and Pacific Worlds
Joshua L. Reid concludes that the history of Pacific whaling has undergone a scholarly renaissance.
Arcadia
Freshwater Fish Invasion as Deliberate Neglect: Unpacking Multispecies Colonialism in West Papua
Indonesian state experts introduced invasive species into West Papua, a deliberate ecological disruption that advances a colonial agenda disguised as development.
Arcadia
Of Rust and Mold—The Insect Pin as a Token of Transimperial Cooperation
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.
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“Der Bartgeier”
This poem traces the complex relationship between humans and the largest bird of the Alps, the bone-eating bearded vulture (Bartgeier).
Arcadia
A Paradise in Spring: An Ecological Account of Birds, Fishes, and Hunters in the Bāburnāma
Zahīr ud-Dīn Muhammad Bābur’s autobiography anticipates an ecological and multispecies way of understanding the environment, highlighting confluence rather than divergence between humans and nonhumans.
Arcadia
Miyaoi Yasuo’s Perspective on Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan: Intersecting Humans and Animals, Shared Emotions and Ethics
Miyaoi Yasuo’s 1858 collection of tales, Kidan zasshi, challenges assumed human–animal boundaries, portraying shared ethics, reincarnation, and emotional connections by blending folklore and insights drawn from Edo-period experience.
Arcadia
Insisting on Boars: How Villagers of Karaburun Employ their Knowledge of Multispecies Entanglements in Local Power Struggles
Villagers witness and push to maintain ecological relations in the face of development that has decimated olive groves and scattered fences and turbines.
Exhibition chapter
Whale Fall | Ghosh in Munich
A poetic descent into illness parallels a whale fall, uncovering beauty, vulnerability, and new forms of living.