Summary of SEAA READS, session eight, 2/2024
Heather Anne Swanson 2022 Spawning Modern Fish . Transnational Comparison in the Making of Japanese Salmon. https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/ 9780295750385/spawning-modern- fish/ As the winner of the 2023 Francis L. K. Hsu Book Prize in East Asia Anthropology, the February session was hosted by committee chair, Christine Yano, where all together 16 participants across time zones in Europe, New World, and East Asia spent the first hour talking about the book’s impressions and reactions to each others’ remarks, too. Then the author joined the conversation for the final 45 minutes. See the full award comments at https://seaa.americananthro. org/awards/past-seaa-awards/ In the limited time online several readers identified the central idea of comparison introduced early in the book to make sense of the particular decisions and aspirations of the 150+ years of salmon management in and around Japan, as well as elsewhere around the Pacific coa...