Spawning Modern Fish: Transnational Comparison in the Making of Japanese Salmon

by Heather Anne Swanson

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Winner of the Francis L.K. Hsu Book Prize from the Society for East Asian Anthropology

Multispecies ethnography turns its attention to the bodies of fish

Since the mid-nineteenth century, agricultural development and fisheries management in northern Japan have been profoundly shaped by how people within and beyond Japan have compared Hokkaido's landscapes to those of other places, as part of efforts to make the new Japanese...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295750391
• ISBN13: 9780295750392
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"