| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 258 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Nordic Institute of Asian Studies : Man and nature in Asia |
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Man and nature in Asia.
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| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Preface; Introduction; Wildlife as resource; Attitudes towards wildlife and the hunt in pre-Buddhist China; The chase and the Dharma: the legal protection of wild animals in premodern Tibet; Representations of hunting in Japan; Japanese perceptions of whales and dolphins; Cultural underpinnings of the wildlife trade in Southeast Asia; Coconut-picking macaques in southern Thailand: economic, cultural and ecological aspects; Wildlife pests and predators; Wildlife depredations in Jigme Dorji National Park, Bhutan |
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Farming the forest edge: perceptions of wildlife among the Kerinci of SumatraPigs across ethnic boundaries: examples from Indonesia and the Philippines; 'Primitive' tiger hunters in Indonesia and Malaysia, 1800 1950; The Raj and the natural world: the war against 'dangerous beasts' in Colonial India; Wolf reintroduction in Japan?; Index |
| Summary |
Bringing together anthropologists and historians, this volume examines the range, variability and historical mutability of human sensibilities towards, and relationships to, animals in Asia |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Human-animal relationships -- Asia
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Wildlife utilization -- Asia
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Wildlife pests -- Asia
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
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Human-animal relationships
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Wildlife pests
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Wildlife utilization
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Asia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Knight, John, 1960-
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| ISBN |
0203641817 |
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9780203641811 |
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9781135795634 |
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1135795630 |
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