Bringing Whales Ashore : Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan /

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"Today, Japan defends its controversial whaling expeditions by invoking tradition--but what was the historical reality? In examining the techniques and impacts of whaling during the Tokugawa period (1603-1868), Jakobina Arch shows that the organized, shore-based whaling that first developed dur...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Arch, Jakobina K. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
HISTORY / Asia / Japan
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General
Whaling > Environmental aspects.
Whaling.
Tokugawa period, Japan, 1600-1868.
Whaling > Social aspects.
Whaling > Social aspects > Japan > History.
Whaling > Environmental aspects > Japan.
Whaling > Japan > History.
Japan.
Japan > History > Tokugawa period, 1600-1868.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword : The aquamarine archipelago / by Paul S. Sutter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on the text
  • Maps of whaling areas
  • Introduction
  • Seeing from the sea : a whale's-eye view of Japan
  • Bringing whales ashore, whalers offshore : coastal networks and the history of whaling
  • Moving whales from coasts to mountains : the circulation and use of whale products
  • Seeding stories : whales as cultural and scholarly inspiration
  • Memorializing whales : religious and spiritual responses to whale death
  • Conclusion. Japan and its maritime space.

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