About this issue
Whales offer investigative bridgeheads into the cultural histories of nonhuman species, the hidden histories of energy economies, and the complicated histories of cross-cultural contact. This volume brings together contributions from all corners of the Pacific Ocean, offering perspectives from Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Fiji, Hawai‘i, Siberia, Alaska, and the Pacific Northwest. Particular emphasis is placed on the experiences of Indigenous peoples and women as active agents in the whaling trade. Utilizing new forms of evidence and new tools of interpretation, this collection of essays delves into the depths of Pacific history in order to investigate and test the Pacific world concept and probe the limits of human abilities to know other species.
How to cite: Tucker Jones, Ryan, and Angela Wanhalla, eds. “New Histories of Pacific Whaling,” RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society 2019, no. 5. doi.org/10.5282/rcc/8954.
Content
- Introduction by Ryan Tucker Jones and Angela Wanhalla
- South Pacific Whale Worlds
- The American Animal Welfare Movement and Pacific Whaling by Lissa Wadewitz
- Oil, Spermaceti, Ambergris, and Teeth: Products of the Nineteenth-Century Pacific Sperm-Whaling Industry by Nancy Shoemaker
- Māori Women in Southern New Zealand’s Shore-Whaling World by Kate Stevens and Angela Wanhalla
- Newspaper Stories Promoting Local Nineteenth-Century Shore-Based Whaling in Hawaiian Waters by Susan A. Lebo
- Whaling, Tabua, and Cokanauto by Vicki Luker
- North Pacific Whale Worlds
- Whaling at the Margins: Drift Whales, Ainu Laborers, and the Japanese State on the Nineteenth-Century Okhotsk Coast by Noell Wilson
- Nineteenth-Century Japanese Whaling and Early Territorial Expansion in the Pacific by Jakobina Arch
- Multiplicities of Japanese Whaling: A Case Study of Baird’s-Beaked-Whaling and its Foodways in Chiba Prefecture, Eastern Japan by Akamine Jun
- What is a Whale? Cetacean Value at the Bering Strait, 1848–1900 by Bathsheba Demuth
- When Environmentalists Crossed the Strait: Subsistence Whalers, Hippies, and the Soviets by Ryan Tucker Jones
- Post-Colonial Whale Worlds
- Ngarrindjeri Whaling Narratives and Reconciliation at Encounter Bay, South Australia by Adam Paterson and Chris Wilson
- Whales and Whaling in Puget Sound Coast Salish History and Culture by Jonathan Clapperton
- Te Aitanga a Hauiti and Paikea: Whale People in the Modern Whaling Era by Billie Lythberg and Wayne Ngata
- Whale Peoples and Pacific Worlds by Joshua L. Reid
