| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 306 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Yale agrarian studies series
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Yale agrarian studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-291) and index. |
| Summary |
Boomgaard documents the relationship between the 'big cat' and humans in the Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore area during the 350-year colonial period, recreating a world in which people feared tigers but often came into contact with them because these fierce predators prefer habitats created by human interference. It shows how people and tigers adapted to each other's behaviour, each transmitting this learning from one generation to the next. |
| Contents |
""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"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Tiger -- Southeast Asia -- History.
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Tiger. |
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Southeast Asia. |
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History. |
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Human-animal relationships -- Southeast Asia -- History.
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Human-animal relationships. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Boomgaard, P., 1946- Frontiers of fear. New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, ©2001 0300085397 9780300085396 (DLC) 2001026536 (OCoLC)46975010 |
| ISBN |
9780300127591 (electronic book) |
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0300127596 (electronic book) |
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0300085397 (alkaline paper) |
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9780300085396 (alkaline paper) |
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1281741027 |
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9781281741028 |
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