Paperback
978-1-896445-26-7Size: 6" x 9"
Pages: 349
Pages: 349
Marine Mammals and Northern Cultures
Circumpolar Research Series
By Arne Kalland, Frank Sejersen, Harald Beyer Broch and Mats Ris
This book focuses upon the hunting of seals and whales in the North Atlantic region, and how the activities of urban-based environmentalism has prompted responses from diverse northern peoples associated with self-determination, human rights, and sustainable development. However, the relevance of an expanding environmentalism implicitly challenges the interests and very survival of local peoples and their distinctive cultures. An historical analysis of these hunting societies reveals that although often understood as traditional and marginal, they are modern, dynamic, and pro-active. The authors argue that their 'indigenousness' is more usefully understood in terms of power relations within the international community. In examining the discourses in both camps, the authors find that despite the polarized and opposed positions each side takes, common ground still exists.
Book details
Publication date: January 2005Features: B&W photographs, figures, references, index with contributions from Harald Beyer Broch and Mats Ris
Series: Circumpolar Research Series
Keywords: Northern Cultures;Biology;Anthropology
Subject(s): SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Mammals, Northern Cultures / Biology / Anthropology, Northern Cultures;Biology;Anthropology, Natural History, Canadian Studies
Publisher(s): The University of Alberta Press, North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission (NAMMCO)
Book details
Publication date: January 2005Features: B&W photographs, figures, references, index with contributions from Harald Beyer Broch and Mats Ris
Series: Circumpolar Research Series
Keywords: Northern Cultures;Biology;Anthropology
Subject(s): SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Mammals, Northern Cultures / Biology / Anthropology, Northern Cultures;Biology;Anthropology, Natural History, Canadian Studies
Publisher(s): The University of Alberta Press, North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission (NAMMCO)
Arne Kalland.
Frank Sejersen.
Harald Beyer Broch.
Mats Ris.
"Marine Mammals and Northern Cultures by Arne Kalland and Frank Sejersen explores recent shifts in national and international environmental policy that has become strongly informed by environmental groups which have reclassified whales and seals from a source of sustainable resources to a form of global patrimony that should not be hunted under any conditions…. The book's strongest argument is the challenge to the reclassification of 'management goals' from a question of defining sustainable numbers to one of moral rectitude…. The book overall is clearly written, carefully researched, full of new information and stimulating. I enjoyed reading it."
Arne Kalland.
Frank Sejersen.
Harald Beyer Broch.
Mats Ris.
"Marine Mammals and Northern Cultures by Arne Kalland and Frank Sejersen explores recent shifts in national and international environmental policy that has become strongly informed by environmental groups which have reclassified whales and seals from a source of sustainable resources to a form of global patrimony that should not be hunted under any conditions…. The book's strongest argument is the challenge to the reclassification of 'management goals' from a question of defining sustainable numbers to one of moral rectitude…. The book overall is clearly written, carefully researched, full of new information and stimulating. I enjoyed reading it."