Research Catalog

Title

Walruses and the walrus hunt in West and Northwest Greenland : an interview survey about the catch and the climate / Erik W. Born, Anna Heilmann, Lene Kielsen Holm, Kristin L. Laidre and Maria Iversen.

Author

Born, Erik W.

Publication

• Copenhagen : Museum Tusculanum Press, [2017]
• ©2017

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Additional Authors

• Heilmann, Anna (Consultant to Grønlands naturinstitut)
• Holm, Lene Kielsen
• Laidre, K. L. (Kristin L.)
• Iversen, Maria

Description

256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps; 28 cm.

Summary

"This volume presents the results of a survey of Greenland subsistence hunters, who hunt and catch walruses in West and Northwest Greenland, where the animals are still a part of the traditional subsistence hunting culture. However, the Greenland walrus hunting grounds have experienced marked environmental changes due to climate change, and quotas were introduced for the catch across all of Greenland in 2006. These interviews explore how such changes have affected the local communities. The main text summarizes the broad findings while more details are provided in the individual hunter statements in four appendices."--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

• Monographs on Greenland = Meddelelser om Grønland, 0025-6676 ; vol. 355
• Man & society, 0106-1062 ; vol. 44

Uniform Title

• Meddelelser om Grønland bd. 355.
• Meddelelser om Grønland. Man & society 44.

Subject

• Walrus > Climatic factors > Greenland
• Walrus hunting > Greenland
• Inuit > Hunting > Greenland
• Inuit > Greenland > Interviews
• Hunters > Greenland > Interviews
• Inuit > Greenland > Social conditions
• Traditional ecological knowledge > Greenland
• Climatic changes > Social aspects > Greenland
• Marine mammal populations > Climatic factors > Greenland

Genre/Form

Interviews

Note

• Interviews conducted in Greenlandic (Pages 29-30).

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-256).

Language (note)

• Abstract and dedication also in Greenlandic (Kalâtdlisut).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Dedication 9 -- Eqikkaaneq (Greenlandic abstract) 9 -- Pigititsineq (Greenlandic dedication) 10 -- Introduction 15 -- Structure of the book 21 -- Materials and methods 22 -- Description of the survey area and its division into subareas 22 -- Travels 25 -- Selection of interviewees 25 -- Information to the public 28 -- Interviewing method 29 -- Treatment of data 30 -- Legislation and management of walruses 32 -- Catch statistics 35 -- Results 36 -- Responses to the questions 36 -- Basic background data about the informants (Questions 1-3) -- The catch of walruses, overall hunting "strategies" and the use of products (Questions 4-9) -- Trends in the catch of walruses (Questions 10-16) 43 -- Categories of walruses caught (Questions 17-20) 46 -- Hunting methods (Questions 21-28) 47 -- Losses ("Struck-but-lost" ratio) (Questions 29-31) 52 -- "Head hunting" (Questions 32-33) 52 -- Quotas (Questions 34 and 55) 54 -- Distribution, seasonal occurrence and local abundance (Questions 36-41) 56 -- Walruses hauled out on land (Question 37) 59 -- Change in distribution (Questions 38 and 39) 60 -- Local abundance (Questions 40 and 41) 61 -- Climate and walruses (Questions 42-43) 62 -- Biology (Questions 44-48) 64 -- Period of birth (Question 44) 64 -- Food (Questions 45-48) 65 -- Recovery of tagged walruses (Question 49) 66 -- Other comments/final statements (Question 50) 67 -- Discussion 68 -- Study purpose, design, selection of informants and evaluation of the interview survey method 68 -- Purpose 68 -- The research team 69 -- Selection of informants 70 -- Interviewing methods 71 -- Evaluation of the interview survey method and conclusion 72 -- The catch of walruses, overall hunting strategies and hunting methods 75 -- Trends in the catch of walrus 77 -- Categories of walruses caught 80 -- Hunting methods 81 -- Losses ("struck-but-lost" ratio) 83 -- Distribution, seasonal occurrence and local abundance 85 -- Distribution and seasonal occurrence 85 -- Local abundance 88 -- Climate and walruses 89 -- Biology 93 -- Period of birth 93 -- Food 94 -- Recovery of tagged walrus 97.

ISBN

• 9788763545488
• 8763545489

OCLC

• 979568273
• SCSB-10319378

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library