The lost wolves of Japan /

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Many Japanese once revered the wolf as Oguchi no Magami, or Large-Mouthed Pure God, but as Japan began its modern transformation wolves lost their otherworldly status and became noxious animals that needed to be killed. By 1905 they had disappeared from the country. In this spirited and absorbing na...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Walker, Brett L., 1967-
Otros Autores: Cronon, William
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2005.
Colección:Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
Temas:
Gray wolf > Japan.
Extinct mammals > Japan.
Extinct animals > Japan.
Loup gris > Japon.
Animaux disparus > Japon.
Mammifères disparus > Japon.
NATURE > Animals > Mammals.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > Mammals.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Forestry.
Extinct animals.
Extinct mammals.
Gray wolf.
Ausrottung
Kultur
Wolf
Wolf.
Japan.
Japan
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Foreword: A Strange Violent Intimacy by William Cronon ; Preface ; A Note to the Reader ; Introduction ; 1. Science and the Creation of the Japanese Wolf ; 2. Culture and the Creation of Japan's Sacred Wolves ; 3. The Conflicts between Wolf Hunters and Rabid Man-Killers in Early Modern Japan ; 4. Meiji Modernization, Scientific Agriculture, and Destroying the Hokkaido Wolf ; 5. Wolf Bounties and the Ecologies of Progress ; 6. Wolf Extinction Theories and the Birth of Japan's Discipline of Ecology ; Epilogue.
  • Appendix: Wolves and Bears Killed and Bounties Paid by Administrative Region, 1877-1881 Notes ; Works Cited ; Index.

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