ABSTRACT
Our discussion of the work organization involved in whaling leads us to make use of the concept of a “whaling culture”, based on the two quite separate activities of hunting and processing whales. The introduction of this phrase automatically raises the questions: how is a whaling culture in fact maintained and what is it that enables Japanese whaling culture to become “integrated”? After all, in the previous chapter, we have pointed to the existence of three types of whaling, as well as to two distinct sub-cultures based on hunting and processing. How are these different types and apparently separate sub-cultures linked? It is questions like these that we will address during the remaining part of this book.
