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BELDO, LES·2019·American Ethnologist
DOI 10.1111/amet.12733
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Abstract

The Makah Tribe of Washington State sparked controversy in the late 1990s when tribal leaders sought to revive their people's whaling traditions after a 70‐year hiatus. The ensuing political conflict has been shaped by the normative presuppositions of the US National Marine Fisheries Service. The conception of gray whales as countable, harvestable “stocks” enables Makah officials to claim affinities with the authorized discourse of the state. Antiwhaling activists have strategically adapted to this register, mobilizing scientific uncertainty to delay the hunt, but in doing so they tacitly affirm the idea that it is acceptable to kill whales. These findings call into question anthropological expectations regarding who benefits from the exercise of state power in environmental conflicts, showing that moral and ontological differences are not necessarily coterminous. [whaling, morality, fisheries, ontology, conservation, activism, indigeneity, Makah, United States]

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Authors
BELDO, L.
Affiliations
Oberlin College (US)
Corresponding author
BELDO, LES
Venue
American Ethnologist
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2019-01-11
Volume
46
Issue
1
Pages
47-60
ISSN
  • 0094-0496 (ISSN-L)
  • 1548-1425
DOI
10.1111/amet.12733
OpenAlex
W2910810981
Semantic Scholar
7fa9535343f8e42d0f42e9aaad049012c27eed4e
Cited by
5
References
42
Citations by year
2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1
FWCI
2.28
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor)
Locations
American Ethnologist (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Indigenous Cultures and History
  • Social Sciences › Geography, Planning and Development › Geographies of human-animal interactions
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Indigenous Studies and Ecology
Keywords
whaling, gray whale, inventory management, National Marine Fisheries Service, environmental conflicts, conservation, ontology, morality, indigeneity, state power, scientific uncertainty

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