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- catalog abstract ""In the 1990s a Japanese conservationist group, inspired by North American examples, launched a campaign for the reintroduction of the wolf in Japan. In addition to restoring Japan's natural heritage, the main reason offered for its reintroduction is that the wolf would be the saviour of upland areas of Japan suffering from wildlife pestilence. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork on the Kii Peninsula in western Japan, one of the areas nominated for reintroduction, this book critically examines the problem of people-wildlife conflicts in Japan from a social anthropological perspective. Focusing on wild boar, monkeys, deer, serow, and bears, as well as wolves, it describes the relationship to these animals on the part of farmers, foresters, hunters, and tourists. This detailed case-study shows that conflicts with wildlife are inextricably bound up with social conflict among people, and that wildlife pestilence must therefore be understood in terms of its symbolic as well as material dimensions."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12821934.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""In the 1990s a Japanese conservationist group, inspired by North American examples, launched a campaign for the reintroduction of the wolf in Japan. In addition to restoring Japan's natural heritage, the main reason offered for its reintroduction is that the wolf would be the saviour of upland areas of Japan suffering from wildlife pestilence. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork on the Kii Peninsula in western Japan, one of the areas nominated for reintroduction, this book critically examines the problem of people-wildlife conflicts in Japan from a social anthropological perspective. Focusing on wild boar, monkeys, deer, serow, and bears, as well as wolves, it describes the relationship to these animals on the part of farmers, foresters, hunters, and tourists. This detailed case-study shows that conflicts with wildlife are inextricably bound up with social conflict among people, and that wildlife pestilence must therefore be understood in terms of its symbolic as well as material dimensions."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Mountain villages -- 2. Wild Boar -- 3. Monkeys -- 4. Deer and Serow -- 5. Bears -- 6. Wolves.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-289) and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 296 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0199255180 (hbk.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Oxford studies in social and cultural anthropology".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Japan.".
- catalog subject "304.20952 21".
- catalog subject "GF666 .K57 2003x".
- catalog subject "Gray wolf Japan.".
- catalog subject "Human ecology Japan.".
- catalog subject "Human-animal relationships Japan.".
- catalog subject "Wildlife pests Control Japan.".
- catalog subject "Wolves Japan.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Mountain villages -- 2. Wild Boar -- 3. Monkeys -- 4. Deer and Serow -- 5. Bears -- 6. Wolves.".
- catalog title "Waiting for wolves in Japan : an anthropological study of people-wildlife relations / John Knight.".
- catalog type "text".