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Wildlife in Asia Cultural Perspectives

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ISBN-10: 0203641817

ISBN-13: 9780203641811

Edition: 2003

Authors: John Knight

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List price: $59.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 7/31/2004
Pages: 272
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.

Preface
List of Contributors
Introduction
Wildlife as Resource
Attitudes towards Wildlife and the Hunt in Pre-Buddhist China Ro
The Chase and the Dharma: The Legal Protection of Wild Animals in Premodern Tibet
Representations of Hunting in Japan
Japanese Perceptions of Whales and Dolphins
Cultural Underpinnings of the Wildlife Trade in Southeast Asia
Coconut-Picking Macaques in Southern Thailand: Economic, Cultural and Ecological Aspects
Wildlife Pests and Predators
Wildlife Depredations in Jigme Dorji National Park, Bhutan
Farming the Forest Edge: Perceptions of Wildlife among the Kerinci of Sumatra
Pigs across Ethnic Boundaries: Examples from Indonesia and the Philippines
'Primitive' Tiger Hunters in Indonesia and Malaysia, 1800-1950
The Raj and the Natural World: The War against 'Dangerous Beasts' in Colonial India
Wolf Reintroduction in Japan?