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Frontiers of fear : tigers and people in the Malay world, 1600-1950 /

For centuries, reports of man-eating tigers in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore have circulated, shrouded in myth and anecdote. This fascinating book documents the "big cat"--Human relationship in this area during its 350-year colonial period, re-creating a world in which people feared t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boomgaard, P., 1946-2017
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, ©2001.
Colección:Yale agrarian studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Meeting the tiger and the other big cats
  • The tiger : friend or foe?
  • Man-eating tigers
  • Ancestors for sale : bounties for the big cats
  • Hunting and trapping
  • Tiger and leopard rituals at the Javanese courts, 1605-1906
  • The ancestral tiger : from protection to punishment
  • Devouring the hearts of the people : the weretiger
  • The rise, decline, and fall of the tiger
  • Living apart together.