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Thread #95658   Message #1871905
Posted By: Barry Finn
30-Oct-06 - 01:55 AM
Thread Name: BS: Iceland and whale hunting
Subject: RE: BS: Iceland and whale hunting
Do these "natives" still hunt traditionaly without the use modern high teck? Do they fish with harpoon or spear or do they use high power weaponery? Do they hunt by small vessels or high powered large sea going vessels? I think that you understood that my differences were that they are modernized cultures. The way that old world groups survive & don't harm the balance of food stocks is in there method of the hunt & that the hunt was always based on getting enough to be self sufficient which would include trade with neighbors. No, people do not need to look different but their life style is definitly different. They don't live in high rise or cities. They live in the communities & surroundings that have existed without the aides of modern technology. The inhabitants of rain forests, the Inuit people, the Hawaiians of Niihau & of course there are exceptions. An example might be those I gave above like the Mic Mac who unlike the others fish, hunt & plant in order to supplment while others do the same for their survival. I would say that this is quite a differrence from those cultures & societies that engauge in these activities for commerical profit.
There's the difference.
Barry