Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan, 1600-1900
Whales are an enigma. It is difficult to pin them down because they straddle categories. Whales were difficult not just because of their extraordinary size, but rather because they were peculiar sorts of fish, with meat more like wild boar than tuna. In the same way that they existed at the intersec...
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Harvard University
2014
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| Online Access: | http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11480 http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:12274496 |