Preface

Anthropological Research on Whaling: Prehistoric, Historic and Current Contexts

James M. Savelle and Nobuhiro Kishigami　

Part I　WHALING IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

A Hawaiian Perspective on Whaling in the North Pacific

Susan A. Lebo

Part II　ABORIGINAL SUBSISTENCE AND LOCAL WHALING ACTIVITIES

Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling Revisited

Hisashi Hamaguchi

Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling in Barrow, Alaska

Nobuhiro Kishigami

Whale Hunting and Use among the Chukchi in Northeastern Siberia

Kazunobu Ikeya

Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling in Bequia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Hisashi Hamaguchi

Traditional Whaling Culture and Social Change in Lamalera, Indonesia:
An Analysis of the Catch Record of Whaling 1994–2010

Tomoko Egami and Kotaro Kojima

Beluga Hunting Practices of the Indigenous People in Kamchatka:
Characterization of Sea Mammal Hunting in Northeastern Asia

Yutaka Watanabe

Part III　WHALING IN JAPAN AND KOREA REGIONS

Whaling in the Northern Seas off Japan

Masami Iwasaki-Goodman and Masahiro Nomoto

Intangible Food Heritage: Dynamics of Whale Meat Foodways in an Age of Whale Meat Rarity

Jun Akamine

A Review of Changes in the Use of Whale Resources over Time in Japan, with a Specific Example of the Hand-harpoon Fishery of Nago, Okinawa Prefecture

Aiko Endo

How the Japanese Appetite for Whale-related Foods Is Rooted in Their Culture:
Findings Revealed from the Data (N=560) of the Tokyo Metropolitan Area in 2008

Dai Tanno and Toshihide Hamazaki

Whale Food Culture in Korea: A Case Study in Ulsan Jangsaengpo

Sun-ae Ii

Part IV　SEVERAL ISSUES OF WHALING

Unleashing the Beast: Whaling in the Contemporary Australia-Japan Relationship

Michael Heazle

Law-Enforcing Vigilantes in the Media Era?: An Investigation of Sea Shepherd's Anti-Whaling Campaign

Motohiro Kawashima

Japanese Whaling and International Politics

Dan Goodman

The Truth about the Commercial Whaling Moratorium

Joji Morishita

Concluding Remarks

Hisashi Hamaguchi, James M. Savelle and Nobuhiro Kishigami

Index

List of Contributors