Inuit, Whaling, and Sustainability
Whales inspire great fascination in the public culture of industrialized nations. Images of majestic and mysterious creatures of the sea, hunted to or nearly to tragic extinction in a emblematic example of human excess, have fueled the economic and cultural power of this century's global movement to end whale hunting. However, this political movement, and the ecological research it initiated, has largely ignored the experience of Native circumpolar communities, whose vast knowledge of whales and whaling has evolved through centuries of integrated cultural and economic practices rooted in the ethics of subsistence consumption and sustainabilit…
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Weitere Autoren: Bogoslovskaya, Lyudmila / Caulfield, Richard A.
- ISBN: 978-0-7619-9063-5
- EAN: 9780761990635
- Produktnummer: 1798912
- Verlag: Altamira Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
- Seitenangabe: 210 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.2 cm 331 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 331
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