Title The wake of the whale : hunter societies in the Caribbean and North Atlantic / Russell Fielding

Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (342 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps Contents Introduction: The sea bean -- The most exciting word in Faroese -- Oil and history on a Caribbean beach -- The stones of Faroe -- Barrouallie, St. Vincent's blackfish town -- Drawing out Leviathan -- Laws and traditions -- The fragile link -- Culturally embedded conservation strategies -- The value of seawater -- The mercurial sea -- Conclusion: Foreignness and familiarity Summary Island communities in the Caribbean and the North Atlantic still use traditional methods to hunt whales and dolphins for food. Despite declining stocks worldwide and increasing health risks, artisanal whaling remains a popular practice tied to nature's rhythms. The Wake of the Whale presents the art, history, and purpose of whaling in these different cultures and climates, and describes what the future of these societies might look like as modern realities take hold. Sightings of pilot whales in the frigid Nordic waters have drawn residents of the Faroe Islands to their boats and beaches for nearly a thousand years. Down in the tropics, around the islands of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, artisanal whaling is a younger trade, shaped by the legacies of slavery and colonialism but no less important to the local population. Each culture, Russell Fielding shows, has developed a distinct approach to whaling that preserves key traditions while adapting to threats of scarcity, the requirements of regulation, and a growing awareness of the humane treatment of animals. Yet these strategies struggle to account for the risks of regularly eating meat contaminated with methylmercury and other environmental pollutants introduced from abroad. Fielding considers how these and other factors may change whaling cultures forever, perhaps even bringing an end to this way of life.-- Provided by publisher Notes In English Print version record Subject Whaling -- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Whaling -- Faroe Islands Whaling -- Environmental aspects Whaling -- Health aspects Hunting and gathering societies -- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Hunting and gathering societies -- Faroe Islands Marine resources conservation -- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Marine resources conservation -- Faroe Islands TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural Hunting and gathering societies Marine resources conservation Whaling Whaling -- Environmental aspects Humanökologie Vergleichende Forschung Walfänger Walfang Grindwal Kulturerbe Umweltverschmutzung Faroe Islands Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Atlantischer Ozean -- Nord Karibik Färöer Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Form Electronic book ISBN 9780674989696 0674989694 9780674989672 0674989678

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