The American Animal Welfare Movement and Pacific Whaling. : RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society 2019, no. 6: New Histories of Pacific Whaling. Revised Edition: Oil, Spermaceti, Ambergris, and Teeth: Products of the Nineteenth- Century Pacific Sperm-Whaling Industry.

Nancy Shoemaker considers the four main products harvested in the nineteenth-century Pacific sperm whale trade: oil, spermaceti, ambergris, and teeth. Arguing that the first three were considered as commodities, used mainly for lighting or perfume fabrication, Shoemaker suggests that whales’ teeth c...

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Main Author: Shoemaker, Nancy
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Published: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany 2021
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environmental movements
resources
animals
whales
conservation
indigenous peoples
multispecies
oceans
whaling
Pacific
Sperm whale
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description Nancy Shoemaker considers the four main products harvested in the nineteenth-century Pacific sperm whale trade: oil, spermaceti, ambergris, and teeth. Arguing that the first three were considered as commodities, used mainly for lighting or perfume fabrication, Shoemaker suggests that whales’ teeth catered to a more niche market. Used as a form of currency with Pacific Islanders in the Oceania trade, whales’ teeth also served as a blank template for cultural inscription, often being used to create engravings and household implements, and today have become extremely valuable as meaningful relics of the trade.
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title The American Animal Welfare Movement and Pacific Whaling. : RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society 2019, no. 6: New Histories of Pacific Whaling. Revised Edition: Oil, Spermaceti, Ambergris, and Teeth: Products of the Nineteenth- Century Pacific Sperm-Whaling Industry.
title_short The American Animal Welfare Movement and Pacific Whaling. : RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society 2019, no. 6: New Histories of Pacific Whaling. Revised Edition: Oil, Spermaceti, Ambergris, and Teeth: Products of the Nineteenth- Century Pacific Sperm-Whaling Industry.
title_full The American Animal Welfare Movement and Pacific Whaling. : RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society 2019, no. 6: New Histories of Pacific Whaling. Revised Edition: Oil, Spermaceti, Ambergris, and Teeth: Products of the Nineteenth- Century Pacific Sperm-Whaling Industry.
title_fullStr The American Animal Welfare Movement and Pacific Whaling. : RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society 2019, no. 6: New Histories of Pacific Whaling. Revised Edition: Oil, Spermaceti, Ambergris, and Teeth: Products of the Nineteenth- Century Pacific Sperm-Whaling Industry.
title_full_unstemmed The American Animal Welfare Movement and Pacific Whaling. : RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society 2019, no. 6: New Histories of Pacific Whaling. Revised Edition: Oil, Spermaceti, Ambergris, and Teeth: Products of the Nineteenth- Century Pacific Sperm-Whaling Industry.
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