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Ep. 021

Published: 2015-10-30 01:55:00
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Bethel, AK. Steven Rinella talks with Janis Putelis, Mike Washlesky, and Korey Kaczmareck from the MeatEater crew. Subjects discussed: Nunivak Cup'ig Eskimos; Texas pride; jumping out of helicopters while snowboarding; the circumpolar distribution of blue mussels; muskox wool; the Arctic explorer Robert Peary; Mickey Mouse boots vs. bunny boots; the poet and novelist Sadaam Hussein; gear list for a Nunivak Island muskox hunt; Russian fur traders; the subsistence lifestyle on Nunivak Island; seal skin hat-buying misadventures; feeling like an ecological participant vs. an ecological voyeur; and putting into words why you sometimes just want to go right back out and do the same hunt all over again.

 

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Referenced Books

Oomingmak: The Expedition to the Musk Ox Island in the Bering Sea
by Peter Matthiessen
The speaker discusses a book by writer Peter Matthiessen (spelled 'Matheson' in transcript) about muskox. He describes it as 'sort of like a magazine article that turned into a book' and mentions that Matthiessen discusses how some natives call muskox 'oomingmak' and relates imagery about the muskox's wool swaying like chain mail and how the wool meets tall grass in a way that makes it hard to distinguish where one ends and one begins. The specific book title is not mentioned in the transcript.
Referenced at Unable to determine from transcript