The lost wolves of Japan /
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| Author / Creator: | Walker, Brett L., 1967- |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2005. |
| Description: | xviii, 331 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Weyerhaeuser environmental books Weyerhaeuser environmental book. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5878722 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword: A Strange Violent Intimacy
- 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
