La chasse à la baleine chez les Aïnous et leurs traditions préhistoriques dans l’archipel du Japon

The Ainu is an ethnic group native to Hokkaido in the north part of Japanese Archipelago. Their territory also previously extended to the island of Sakhalin and the Chishima Islands. This knowledge and experience, was maintained by the Ainu. It is certain that the traditional whale hunting of the Ai...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Les Nouvelles de l'archéologie
Main Author: Kazuharu Takehana
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:French
Published: Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme 2022
Subjects:
whaling
Aïnou
tradition
Japan
prehistory
Hokkaidō
Archaeology
CC1-960
Baleine
la Baleine
Sakhalin
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.4000/nda.13367
https://doaj.org/article/41e7be9123544806be543608e49ed721
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Summary:The Ainu is an ethnic group native to Hokkaido in the north part of Japanese Archipelago. Their territory also previously extended to the island of Sakhalin and the Chishima Islands. This knowledge and experience, was maintained by the Ainu. It is certain that the traditional whale hunting of the Ainu followed the material culture of the Prehistory which it was a primitive style. The Ainu had a special ecological knowledge of the cetaceans and this included the establishment of some taboos on hunting certain species.

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