Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Thomas F. Thornton and Madonna L. Moss, "Herring and People of the North Pacific: Sustaining a Keystone Species" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Thomas F. Thornton and Madonna L. Moss, "Herring and People of the North Pacific: Sustaining a Keystone Species" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Herring are vital to the productivity and health of marine systems, and socio-ecologically Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) is one of the most important fish species in the Northern Hemisphere. Human dependence on herring has evolved for millennia through interactions with key spawning areas, but humans have also significantly impacted the species’ distribution and abundance.
Combining ethnological, historical, archaeological, and political perspectives with comparative reference to other North Pacific cultures, Herring and People of the North Pacific: Sustaining a Keystone Species (U Washington Press, 2021) traces fishery development in Southeast Alaska from precontact Indigenous relationships with herring to postcontact focus on herring products. Revealing new findings about current herring stocks as well as the fish’s significance to the conservation of intraspecies biodiversity, the book explores the role of traditional local knowledge, in combination with archeological, historical, and biological data, in both understanding marine ecology and restoring herring to their former abundance.
Adam Bobeck is a PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Leipzig. His PhD is entitled “Object-Oriented Azadari: Shi’i Muslim Rituals and Ontology”. For more about his work, see www.adambobeck.com.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/native-american-studies
View all episodes
By Marshall Poe
4.3
103103 ratings
Herring are vital to the productivity and health of marine systems, and socio-ecologically Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) is one of the most important fish species in the Northern Hemisphere. Human dependence on herring has evolved for millennia through interactions with key spawning areas, but humans have also significantly impacted the species’ distribution and abundance.
Combining ethnological, historical, archaeological, and political perspectives with comparative reference to other North Pacific cultures, Herring and People of the North Pacific: Sustaining a Keystone Species (U Washington Press, 2021) traces fishery development in Southeast Alaska from precontact Indigenous relationships with herring to postcontact focus on herring products. Revealing new findings about current herring stocks as well as the fish’s significance to the conservation of intraspecies biodiversity, the book explores the role of traditional local knowledge, in combination with archeological, historical, and biological data, in both understanding marine ecology and restoring herring to their former abundance.
Adam Bobeck is a PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Leipzig. His PhD is entitled “Object-Oriented Azadari: Shi’i Muslim Rituals and Ontology”. For more about his work, see www.adambobeck.com.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/native-american-studies
More shows like New Books in Native American Studies
View all
This American Life
90,955 Listeners
On the Media
9,192 Listeners
Democracy Now! Audio
5,747 Listeners
Reveal
8,427 Listeners
New Books in Philosophy
111 Listeners
New Books in History
215 Listeners
New Books in Military History
160 Listeners
New Books in Critical Theory
144 Listeners
New Books in Political Science
62 Listeners
New Books in Psychoanalysis
189 Listeners
New Books in Psychology
47 Listeners
New Books in African American Studies
165 Listeners
New Books in Environmental Studies
25 Listeners
New Books in Intellectual History
60 Listeners
Heavyweight
17,734 Listeners
Code Switch
14,617 Listeners
The Intercept Briefing
6,109 Listeners
Rev Left Radio
3,316 Listeners
Ologies with Alie Ward
24,414 Listeners
Throughline
16,355 Listeners
All My Relations Podcast
2,994 Listeners
The Red Nation Podcast
1,008 Listeners
Acid Horizon
197 Listeners
Conspirituality
2,050 Listeners