Cow

Name: Cow
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ISBN: 9781861893260

ISBN-10: 1861893264

ISBN-13: 9781861893260

Edition: 2007

Authors: Hannah Velten

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From the milk we drink in the morning, to the leather shoes we slip on for the day, to the steak we savor at dinner, our daily lives are thoroughly bound up with cows. Yet there is a far more complex story behind this seemingly benign creature, which Hannah Velten explores here, plumbing the rich trove of myth, fact, and legend surrounding these familar animals. From the plowing field to the rodeo to the temple, Velten tracks the constantly changing social relationship between man and cattle, beginning with the domestication of aurochs around 9000 BCE. From there, "Cow "launches into a fascinating story of religious fanaticism, scientific exploits, and the economic transformations…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Reaktion Books, Limited
Publication date: 10/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.37" wide x 7.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English



Introduction: Reintroducing the Cow, Bull and Ox



Wild Ox to Domesticates



Bull-Gods, Bull-Kings



Cow Mysticism and a Rural Idyll



Toiling the Fields and a &#8216Cattle Complex&#8217



Cattle Stars and Romantic Associations



Poor Cow: Pushing the BoundariesEpilogue: Out of Sight, Out of Mind?Timeline


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