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Frontiers of Fear : Tigers and People in the Malay World, 1600-1950.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Yale Agrarian Studies SeriesPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2001Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (321 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780300127591
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Frontiers of FearDDC classification:
  • 599.756/0959
LOC classification:
  • QL737.C23B658 2001
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Meeting the Tiger and the Other Big Cats -- 3. The Tiger: Friend or Foe? -- 4. Man-Eating Tigers -- 5. Ancestors for Sale: Bounties for the Big Cats -- 6. Hunting and Trapping -- 7. Tiger and Leopard Rituals at the Javanese Courts, 1605 -1906 -- 8. The Ancestral Tiger: From Protection to Punishment -- 9. Devouring the Hearts of the People: The Weretiger -- 10. The Rise, Decline, and Fall of the Tiger -- 11. Living Apart Together -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Meeting the Tiger and the Other Big Cats -- 3. The Tiger: Friend or Foe? -- 4. Man-Eating Tigers -- 5. Ancestors for Sale: Bounties for the Big Cats -- 6. Hunting and Trapping -- 7. Tiger and Leopard Rituals at the Javanese Courts, 1605 -1906 -- 8. The Ancestral Tiger: From Protection to Punishment -- 9. Devouring the Hearts of the People: The Weretiger -- 10. The Rise, Decline, and Fall of the Tiger -- 11. Living Apart Together -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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