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Waiting for Wolves in Japan An Anthropological Study of People-Wildlife Relations

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ISBN-10: 0199255180

ISBN-13: 9780199255184

Edition: 2003

Authors: John Knight

List price: $125.00
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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 criticallyexamines the problem of people-wildlife conflicts in Japan from a social anthropological perspective. Focusing on wild boar, monkeys, deer, serow, and bears, it describes the relationship to these animals on the…    
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List price: $125.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/8/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 308
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.86" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Stephen Satchell is a Fellow of Trinity College, the Reader in Financial Econometrics at the University of Cambridge and Visiting Professor at Birkbeck College, City University Business School and University of Technology, Sydney. He provides consultancy for a range of city institutions in the broad area of quantitative finance. He has published papers in many journals and has a particular interest in risk.

Introduction
Mountain Villages
Wild Boar
Monkeys
Deer and Serow
Bears
Wolves
Conclusion