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Twentieth-century changes in beluga whale hunting and butchering by the kanigmiut of Buckland, Alaska.
From:
Arctic
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September 1, 1997| Author:
Morseth, C. Michele
| COPYRIGHT 1997 Arctic Institute of North America of the University of Calgary. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information
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1 Department of Anthropology, P.O. Box 757720, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska 99775-7720, U.S.A.; present address: P.O. Box 241943, Anchorage, Alaska 99524, U.S.A. [c] Arctic Institute of North America (Received 17 May 1995; accepted in revised form 30 May 1997) ABSTRACT. Since the late 1920s, the Kaigmiut of Kotzebue Sound have increasingly relied upon modern technology to hunt beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas). This reliance has introduced cha...
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