Reference Library
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North Atlantic Library
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North Atlantic
Faroe Islands
Greenland
Iceland
Norway
North Atlantic Studies 1990. Whaling Communities.
Special Issue of North Atlantic Studies 2(1-2)3-217
A Report on the Norwegian Minke Whale Hunt.
Conrad, Jon M. & Trond Bjørndal 1997. Norwegian School of Economics & Business Administration, Trondheim.
The Ring of Dancers: Images of Faroese Culture.
Wylie J. 1981. Grindadrap. In: J. Wylie & D. Margolin (editors) Pages 95-132. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.
The whale hunters Junger, Sebastian 1995. [Bequian whaling, photos by Jim Erickson]. Outside 20(10):99-106, October 1995.
Living off the Sea: Minke Whaling in the North East Atlantic.
High North Alliance 1994. Norwegian Fishermens Association, Norwegian Small-type Whalers Association and High North Alliance, Reine Norway. highnorth@highnorth.no
Marine Hunters: Whaling and Sealing in the North Atlantic.
High North Alliance 1997. 28 pp. photos. High North Alliance, Reine, Norway highnorth@highnorth.no
Norwegian Small-type Whaling in Cultural Perspective.
ISG [International Study Group on Norwegian Small-type Whaling, Arne Kalland, Convenor] 1992. 129 pp. Norwegian College of Fisheries Science, Tromsø.
Peasant Fishermen Whaling in the North Atlantic Area.
Lindquist, Ole 1997. ca. 900 - 1900 A.D. 69 pp. University of Akureyri Publication No. 5, Akureyri, Iceland. ISBN 9979-834-10-2
Survival of the hunters.
Mathiassen, Peter 1995. New Yorker, April 1995, pp. 67-77.
Whales and Whaling in the Faroe Islands.
Sanderson, Kate 1991. Department of Fisheries, Government of the Faroe Islands, Torshavn.
Greenlanders, Whales, and Whaling: Sustainability and Self-determination in the Arctic
Caulfield, Richard A. 1997
224 pp. photos, map, tables. Dartmouth College/University Press of New England. ISBN 0-87451-810-5. $35. Order from University Press of New England, 23 South Main St., Hanover, NH 03755. Fax (603)-643-1540; university.press@dartmouth.edu
Whaling in the North Atlantic. Economic and political perspectives
Petursdottir, Gudrun (ed.). 1997
Proceedings of a conference held in Reykjavik, March 1, 1997. 157 pp. Fisheries Research Institute, University of Iceland. University of Iceland Press. ISBN 9979-54-213-6.
The Anthropology of Community-based Whaling in Greenland
Stevenson, Marc G., Andrew Madsen, and Elaine Maloney (eds). 1997
Greenland's Inuit have for generations depended on the hunting, sharing, and consumption whales to fulfill a variety of social, economic, cultural and nutritional needs. Yet increasingly, Greenlanders' ability to continue supplying these needs in an ecologically responsible manner is threatened by outsiders opposed to the killing of whales. This book contains research papers presented by the Greenland Home Rule government to the International Whaling Commission to explain to those opponents the significance of contemporary whale hunting and use in Greenland.
278 pp, maps, tables. Canadian Circumpolar Institute, Edmonton. ISBN 1-896445-05-5. Can$30 within Canada, US$30 elsewhere.