What does seal-hunter mean?
Seal-hunter means One who hunts seals..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
One who hunts seals..
...who ekes out a living from fishing in the North Sea, or a nomadic tribesman, or an Inuit seal-hunter.
In this they both succeeded ; and the brother turned out to be an excellent seal-hunter besides.
What people know about their climate is also influenced by the cultures of meaning into which they are born (what an Inuit seal-hunter knows about climate will be different to what a Chinese city-dweller knows) and by the cultures of knowledge practice through which they become disciplined (a climatologist knows climate differently to an anthropologist).
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Seal-hunter means One who hunts seals..
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...who ekes out a living from fishing in the North Sea, or a nomadic tribesman, or an Inuit seal-hunter.
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