The Wake of the Whale : : Hunter Societies in the Caribbean and North Atlantic / / Russell Fielding.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Fielding, Russell,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: The Sea Bean --; 1. The Most Exciting Word in Faroese --; 2. Oil and History on a Caribbean Beach --; 3. The Stones of Faroe --; 4. Barrouallie, St. Vincent’s Blackfish Town --; 5. Drawing Out Leviathan --; 6. Laws and Traditions --; 7. The Fragile Link --; 8. Culturally Embedded Conservation Strategies --; 9. The Value of Seawater --; 10. The Mercurial Sea --; Conclusion: Foreignness and Familiarity --; Appendix: Whaling Records --; Notes --; Further Reading --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674989696; 9783110606621
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674989696
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Russell Fielding.

Despite declining stocks and health risks, island communities in the Caribbean and North Atlantic still use traditional methods to hunt whales and dolphins for food. Russell Fielding presents the art, history, and purpose of whaling in these different cultures and describes what their future might look like as modern realities take hold.