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The lost wolves of Japan /
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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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
©2005.
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| Series: | Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.