Connections and Conflicts With Seals in a Scottish Archipelago
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An environmental anthropologist investigates deep-time, mythical, and contemporary relations between seals and Orkney Islanders.
SEAL SONG
One gray afternoon, I saw a seal lying on a rock, eyes half-closed, head tilted toward the wind. It made a low, melodic sound—somewhere between a sigh and a song.
Was it calling out? Mourning? Remembering?
Every now and then, I spot the mammals bobbing in the surf or lounging along the shores of Orkney, a Scottish archipelago, north of the mainland. Their pre
SEAL SONG
One gray afternoon, I saw a seal lying on a rock, eyes half-closed, head tilted toward the wind. It made a low, melodic sound—somewhere between a sigh and a song.
Was it calling out? Mourning? Remembering?
Every now and then, I spot the mammals bobbing in the surf or lounging along the shores of Orkney, a Scottish archipelago, north of the mainland. Their pre
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