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A monumental achievement. With luminous writing and expert reporting, Doug Bock Clark provides a rare view into our shared human past.-- "Mitchell Zuckoff, #1 New York Times bestselling author"
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About the Author
Doug Bock Clark is a writer whose articles have appeared or are forthcoming in the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, National Geographic, GQ, Wired, Rolling Stone, The New Republic, and elsewhere. He won the 2017 Reporting Award, was a finalist for the 2016 Mirror Award, and has been awarded two Fulbright Fellowships, a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, and an 11th Hour Food and Farming Fellowship. Clark has been interviewed about his work on CNN, BBC, NPR, and ABC's 20/20. He is a Visiting Scholar at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.
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Audio CD: 1 pages
Publisher: Hachette B and Blackstone Audio; Unabridged AUDIO edition (January 8, 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1549149687
ISBN-13: 978-1549149689
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5.8 x 1.1 x 5.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
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From what I know of early modern history, in the first few centuries after the discovery of the New World there was a distinct literary genre of missionaries who acted as proto-anthropologists by narrating the life and customs of native peoples. After the missionaries came the real anthropologists and then, more recently, the activists.Often this genre has suffered not only from exoticism but also contained a good deal of egoism. While continuing in this tradition, the author of The Last Whalers thankfully focuses on the Lamelerans and mostly crops himself out of the picture. While there is some rather mundane philosophizing about the need to preserve a diversity of cultures, most of the book deals with the personalities and mores of this fascinating sliver of humanity.Lamaleran culture revolves around the hunting of whales and so a lot of the work is devoted to blow by blow descriptions of harpooning and the ultimate slaying of these animals. Readers expecting typical anthropological data like rituals, myths and social hierarchies will be mostly disappointed.What one does get is a depiction of a tribe torn between adherence to ancestral ways and the possibilities of modernity. The extent to which one will enjoy this book will vary depending on one’s interest in primitive civilizations—particularly those which are hunter based—and the extent to which one is drawn in by the personal stories the author narrates.Personally, I thought the author has nobly contributed to a somewhat ignoble literary tradition. He has depicted a tribe still caught in a mostly prehistoric way of life without sentimentalizing their personalities or writing a hagiographic account of their way of life.Clearly, the Lamalerans have not had a major effect on world history. But the author succeeds in describing their unique culture to such an extent that a compelling case is made for the need to preserve humankind’s cultural diversity.If descriptions of far-off and completely different civilizations are to one’s liking than the Last Whalers is probably a good choice. If one is prepared for bloody hunting scenes and short shrift given to traditional cultural topics then the extraordinary actions of the author in learning the Lamaleran dialect and living among them for extensive periods will lead to a rather gripping narrative. In short, a unique contribution to ethnography that is written for the public and not just for anthropologists. Well worth reading.
The Last Whalers is an absolutely extraordinary work. Clark’s portrayal of the Lamalerans, a hunter-gatherer tribe inhabiting a remote Indonesian island, is both fascinating and moving. He expertly shows how the Lamalerans hunt the largest carnivore in history, the sperm whale, using centuries-old technology. By having lived amongst the tribe across three years, the author is able to describe the hunts in stunning and dramatic detail, with the insight of someone intimately familiar with not only the mechanics of the process, but also the history, culture, and people of Lamalera.The stories of the Lamalerans themselves are even more gripping--from a young orphaned whaler waiting for his big break to an aging legendary harpooner struggling to understand his son’s resistance to the traditional way of life. They bravely stand up to the forces of modernization, largely refusing modern technology that would make the hunts easier and far less dangerous, and relying on bartering and gift-giving instead of paper currency. They hold on to the ways of their ancestors, believing that their tradition--however inconvenient--contains their essence, and that by giving it up, they may lose what it means for them to live.The Last Whalers reminds us to consider what we may be losing as we welcome the latest technology and conveniences with open arms. As modernization and globalization threaten the Lamaleran way of life, Clark richly illustrates how they navigate balancing tradition and progress in a way both exotic and familiar.No doubt, the ways of the Lamalerans are vanishing, as are those of thousands of other indigenous people around the world. The Last Whalers details the lives and culture of a fascinating tribe while also provoking us to contemplate where we come from and what may be lost without a conscious effort. The forces of globalization, for better or worse, are unstoppable. But The Last Whalers helps us pause to celebrate the diversity and resilience of humanity that the Lamalerans exemplify. Reading it was an incredibly moving--and much needed--journey.
This is not a review of the book, but only of the Kindle Preview ebook offered. There is no way to just buy this ebook on Amazon. You can only get a free preview, and if you then want the full ebook then at the end of the preview ebook there’s a button that says “Buy it now!â€. But it doesn’t ever tell you what the ebook costs, or if clicking on “Buy it now!†will automatically purchase the book if you have One Click turned on, or if it will let you see the price and then let you confirm you want it. So no thank you. I now have the ebook on Hold from my library. If this is a new tactic of Amazon’s I think my Kindle ebook buying days are over because I’m not buying ebooks without first knowing what I’m going to be charged for them.
Remarkable. Clark paints a vivid and unflinching portrait of life for a community in Indonesia that is - in ways large and small - wrestling with their hunter-gatherer past and an encroaching modern culture. Rather than romanticize the indigenous for its own sake (as many Westerners seem prone to), Clark allows the community to share their own multi-faceted views on their lives...as they were, as they are, and as they imagine them to be. A true accomplishment.
The Last Whalers often reads like a novel as individual villagers share their lives. This a a book about people whose traditional way of life is hanging on by a finger nail. Modern methods of whale and manta ray fishing have almost overcome the practices of centuries. Spiritual beliefs wither away but have not quite expired. These isolated villages on islands in the Sunda Sea are now a part of today's world. This carefully researched book memorializes them and their inhabitants.
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