Title: The last whalers : three years in the far Pacific with a courageous tribe and a vanishing way of life /
Authors: Clark, Doug Bock,
Year: 2019
Subjects: Clark, Doug Bock Travel Indonesia Lamalerap.; Whaling Indonesia Lamalerap.; Whalers (Persons) Indonesia Lamalerap.; Lamaholot (Indonesian people) Social life and customs.; NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Coastal Regions & Shorelines.; NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection.; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions.; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies.; Manners and customs; Whalers (Persons); Whaling; Lamalerap (Indonesia) Social life and customs.; Indonesia Lamalerap.
Abstract: A journalist draws on his immersive visits to the remote Indonesian island of the Lamalerans, the world's last subsistence whalers, to profile their way of life and illuminate how their indigenous culture is succumbing to the modern world.
Contents: The Lamalerans -- Maps -- A note on the text -- Prologue: The apprentice's lesson -- Part one. 1994-2014. The Lamaleran odyssey ; At play in the graveyard of whales ; The child-eating eel and the curse of the black goat ; The cleansing of harmful language ; This, my son, is how you kill a whale ; The laughter ; The way of the Lamafa -- Part two. 2015. A new year ; Nekat ; The marriage ; In the middle of the typhoon of life -- Part three. 2016. The new Kéna Pukã ; Against the leviathan -- Epilogue.