Preface List of Contributors Introduction Part 1: Wildlife as Resource1. Attitudes towards Wildlife and the Hunt in Pre-Buddhist China2. The Chase and the Dharma: The Legal Protection of Wild Animals in Premodern Tibet 3. Representations of Hunting in Japan 4. Japanese Perceptions of Whales and Dolphins 5. Cultural Underpinnings of the Wildlife Trade in Southeast Asia 6. Coconut-Picking Macaques in Southern Thailand: Economic, Cultural and Ecological Aspects Part 2: Wildlife Pests and Predators 7. Wildlife Depredations in Jigme Dorji National Park, Bhutan8. Farming the Forest Edge: Perceptions of Wildlife among the Kerinci of Sumatra 9. Pigs across Ethnic Boundaries: Examples from Indonesia and the Philippines 10. 'Primitive' Tiger Hunters in Indonesia and Malaysia, 1800-1950 11. The Raj and the Natural World: The War against 'Dangerous Beasts' in Colonial India 12. Wolf Reintroduction in Japan?
John Knight is Lecturer at the School of Anthropological Studies, Queen's University Belfast and a former Research Fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies, The Netherlands.
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'The reader who instantly tenses at the words 'conference volume'
can be reassured; all the papers are data-rich, detailed, well
thought out, and balanced. In fact, rarely has a book about the
anthropology of environmental management packed more data into so
little space.' - The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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