Subsistence Whaling

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Equips readers with an up-to-date summary of current knowledge and theories on the origins and development of subsistence whaling.<div> </div><div>Provides case studies examining the economic, legal and political contexts of contemporary subsistence whaling societies.</div><div> </div><div>Serves as an ideal reference for the reader to situate past and contemporary whaling within the current pro- vs anti-whaling debate. </div>

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<p>James M. Savelle is a recently retired professor in the Department of Anthropology, McGill University. He has conducted 30 seasons of field research in the Canadian Arctic and Alaska, with a focus on prehistoric whaling in this region, as well as on the earliest human occupations specifically in the Canadian Arctic. Among his 70+ academic publications, 20+ deal specifically with prehistoric Thule whaling (ca 800-500 A.D.) in the Canadian Arctic. Notable works include Collectors and Foragers: Subsistence-Settlement System Change in the Central Canadian Arctic, AD 1000¿1960 (1987, British Archaeological Reports 358) and "Paleoeskimo Occupation History of Foxe Basin: Implications for the Core-Area Model and Dorset Origins" (2014, with A.S. Dyke, American Antiquity 79(2): 249¿276), among many others.</p> <p>Gregory Monks is Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, University of Manitoba, currently continuing research on the Toquaht Archaeological Project. His recent publications include Co-editorship of, and two chapters in, The Toquaht Archaeological Project: research at T¿ukw¿aa, a Nuu-chah-nulth village and defensive site in Barkley Sound, western Vancouver Island (2023, British Archaeological Reports International Series 3135), editorship of, and chapter within, Climate Change and Human Responses: a zooarchaeological perspective (2017, Springer), and Zooarchaeology of the Northwest Coast of North America (2017, Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology). He formerly served as a Canadian representative on the Board of the International Council for ArchaeoZoology.</p> <p>Nobuhiro Kishigami is Professor Emeritus at the National Museum of Ethnology and the Graduate University for Advanced Studies in Japan. His recent publications include Food Sharing in Human Societies: Anthropological Perspectives (2021, Springer), World Whaling: Historical and Contemporary Studies (2021, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan), and Indigenous Cultures in the North Pacific Rim: History, Language, and Society (2024, Rinsen Shoten, in Japanese). In 2007, he received Canada's Prime Minister's Award for Publishing in recognition of his contributions to Canadian Studies in Japan.</p>

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