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Across Species and Cultures - Whales, Humans, and Pacific Worlds (Hardcover)
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Across Species and Cultures - Whales, Humans, and Pacific Worlds (Hardcover)
Series: Asia Pacific Flows
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More than any other locale, the Pacific Ocean has been the meeting
place between humans and whales. From Indigenous Pacific peoples
who built lives and cosmologies around whales, to Euro-American
whalers who descended upon the Pacific during the nineteenth
century, and to the new forms of human-cetacean partnerships that
have emerged from the late twentieth century, the relationship
between these two species has been central to the ocean's history.
Across Species and Cultures: New Histories of Pacific Whaling
offers for the first time a critical, wide-ranging geographical and
temporal look at the varieties of whale histories in the Pacific.
The essay contributors, hailing from around the Pacific, present a
wealth of fascinating stories while breaking new methodological
ground in environmental history, women's history, animal studies,
and Indigenous ontologies. In the process they reveal previously
hidden aspects of the story of Pacific whaling, including the
contributions of Indigenous people to capitalist whaling, the
industry's exceptionally far-reaching spread, and its overlooked
second life as a global, industrial slaughter in the twentieth
century. While pointing to striking continuities in whaling
histories around the Pacific, Across Species and Cultures also
reveals deep tensions: between environmentalists and Indigenous
peoples, between ideas and realities, and between the North and
South Pacific. The book delves in unprecedented ways into the lives
and histories of whales themselves. Despite the worst ravages of
commercial and industrial whaling, whales survived two centuries of
mass killing in the Pacific. Their perseverance continues to
nourish many human communities around and in the Pacific Ocean
where they are hunted as commodities, regarded as signs of wealth
and power, act as providers and protectors, but are also ancestors,
providing a bridge between human and nonhuman worlds.
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