Wildlife in Asia: cultural perspective/
edited by John Knight
- London: Roultledge Curzaon, 2004.
- xii, 258 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
- (Man and nature in Asia) .
Attitudes towards wildlife and the hunt in pre-Buddhist China / Roel Sterckx -- The chase and the Dharma : the legal protection of wild animals in premodern Tibet / Toni Huber -- Representations of hunting in Japan / John Knight -- Japanese perceptions of whales and dolphins -- Arne Kalland -- Cultural underpinnings of the wildlife trade in southeast Asia / Deanna G. Donovan -- Coconut-picking macaques in souther Thailand : economic, cultural and ecological aspects / Leslie E. Sponsel, Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel and Nukul Ruttanadakul -- Wildlife depredations in Jigme Dorji National Park, Bhutan / Klaus Seeland -- Farming the forest edge : perceptions of wildlife among the Kerinci of Sumatra / Jet Bakels -- Pigs across ethic boundaries : examples from Indonesia and the Philippines / Gerard A. Persoon and Hans H. De Iongh -- Primitive tiger hunters in Indonesia and Malaysia, 1800-1950 / Peter Boomgaard -- The Raj and the natural world : the war against dangerous beasts in Colonial India / Mahesh Rangarajan -- Wolf reintroduction in Japan? / John Knight.
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