Unveiling the Whale: Discourses on Whales and Whaling (Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology)

by Arne Kalland (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $149.43

  Whaling has become one of the most controversial environmental issues. It is not that all whale species are at the brink of extinction, but that whales have become important symbols to both pro- and anti-whaling factions and can easily be appropriated as the common heritage of humankind.