Extreme Climatic Upheaval, Emergency Resource Adaptation, and the Emergence of Folkloric Belief: Geomythic Origin of Sea Serpents from Animals Becoming Entangled in Fishing Gear During New England’s Nineteenth-Century Social-Ecological Crisis

2019/08/01 by Robert L. France · 1 citation
Environmental Science · Health Professions · Social Sciences · #Geographies of human-animal interactions #Indigenous Studies and Ecology #Marine animal studies overview

paper · doi:10.1007/s10745-019-00097-5

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• Gloucester sea serpent [wikipedia]