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.
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.
Jakobina Arch contrasts the modern Japanese whaling industry with expansionist imperial Meiji regime policies.
Akamine Jun explores foodways of whale meat in Japan, specifically detailing Baird’s-beaked- whaling in eastern Japan.
Bathsheba Demuth looks at the value of whales for indigenous peoples around the Bering Strait.
Ryan Tucker Jones recounts how environmental activist organizations came into conflict with indigenous groups in the Bering Straight.
Adam Paterson and Chris Wilson consider Ngarrindjeri contributions to Southern Australia’s nineteenth-century whaling industry.
Jonathan Clapperton details the importance of whaling to Puget Sound Coast Salish people (Puget Salish) along the Pacific Northwest Coast.
Billie Lythberg and Wayne Ngata explore what it means to be whale people in the modern whaling period.
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