The gods of the sea : whales and coastal communities in northeast Japan, c.1600-2019 /

Japan is often imagined as a nation with a long history of whaling. In this innovative new study, Fynn Holm argues that for centuries some regions in early modern Japan did not engage in whaling. In fact, they were actively opposed to it, even resorting to violence when whales were killed. Resistanc...

詳細記述

書誌詳細
第一著者: Holm, Fynn (著者)
フォーマット: Licensed eBooks
言語:英語
出版事項: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
シリーズ:Cambridge oceanic histories.
オンライン・アクセス:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009305532
目次:
  • Part One: Living with Whales, 1600-1850
  • The Whale Pilgrimage
  • The Beached God
  • Bringing Sardines to the Shore
  • Establishing Whaling in the North
  • Part Two: Destroying the Cetosphere, 1850-2019
  • The Whaling Empire
  • The First Whaling Town
  • Burning Down the Whaling Station
  • Washing Away the Past.