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Inuit, whaling, and sustainability
Freeman, M.M.R.; Bogoslavskaya, L.; Caulfied, R.A.; Egede, I.; Krupnik, I.; Stevenson, M.G. (1998). Inuit, whaling, and sustainability. Contemporary Native American Communities, 1. Altamira Press: Walnut Creek. ISBN 0-7619-9063-1. 208 pp.
Part of: Contemporary Native American Communities. Altamira Press, more

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    VLIZ: Fisheries Science FIS.93 [103045]

Keywords
    Fishery legislation
    Fishing
    Government policy
    Hunting > Whaling
    Social aspects
    Marine/Coastal

Authors  Top 
  • Freeman, M.M.R.
  • Bogoslavskaya, L.
  • Caulfied, R.A.
  • Egede, I.
  • Krupnik, I.
  • Stevenson, M.G.

Abstract
    Whales inspire great fascination in the public culture of industrialized nations. Images of majestic andmysterious creatures of the sea, hunted to or nearly to tragic extinction in a emblematic example ofhuman excess, have fueled the economic and cultural power of this century's global movement to endwhale hunting. However, this political movement, and the ecological research it initiated, has largelyignored the experience of Native circumpolar communities, whose vast knowledge of whales andwhaling has evolved through centuries of integrated cultural and economic practices rooted in theethics of subsistence consumption and sustainability. Today, the Inuit find themselves struggling withinternational management regimes which, while they have been successful in curbing the destruction oflarge-scale, commercial whaling enterprises, have imposed policies that are insensitive to the needs andtraditions of Native subsistence hunters. Inuit, Whaling, and Sustainability is based on extensiveethnographic, ecological, and policy research sponsored by the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, andpresents Inuit perspectives on the integral role whales play in cultural, economic, philosophical, andnutritional aspects of Inuit life. This book is also the first major publication to engage in policyanalysis, and formulate modes of environmental research, grounded in Inuit voices and realities.

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