The predicament of nature: Keiko the whale and the cultural politics of whaling in Iceland

Anthropological Quarterly

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 225-260

  Brydon, Anne ^a  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cultural critique; Iceland; Modernity; Nature; Whales and whaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746172589     PISSN: 00035491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/anq.2006.0016     Document Type: Article

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