Beauties and Beasts: Whales in Portugal, from Early-Modern Monsters to Today’s Flagship Species
This article looks at changing perceptions of whales along the coasts of Portugal.
This article looks at changing perceptions of whales along the coasts of Portugal.
This film presents the interdisciplinary and international project BASYS (Baltic Sea System Studies), financed by the European Union in the years 1996 to 1999, which investigated many aspects and influences of mankind activities on the ecosystem Baltic Sea as well as the natural influences such as climate and weather. A large database accessible to all scientists was collected during the project and should help in the future to distinguish between the natural and human effects upon the ecosystem of the Baltic Sea.
In this introduction to a special section on toxic embodiment, Olga Cielemęcka and Cecilia Åsberg examine variously situated bodies, land- and waterscapes, and their naturalcultural interactions with toxicity.
This volume provides new histories of Pacific whaling from untold perspectives.
Lissa Wadewitz juxtaposes the American animal welfare movement with American whaling crews.
Nancy Shoemaker considers the four main products harvested in the nineteenth-century sperm whale trade.
Kate Stevens and Angela Wanhalla explore the role of Māori women in nineteenth-century shore-whaling.
Susan A. Lebo analyzes three decades of newspaper articles reporting whaling in Hawaiian waters from the 1840s.
Vicki Luker details the important role played by tabua—or whales’ teeth—in Fijian history.
Noell Wilson details Japanese attempts to integrate modern-day Hokkaido into the Tokugawa political sphere via drift-whale policy.