| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 124 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Asia shorts ; number 13
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Asia shorts ; no. 13.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Animals in Pre-Meiji Theory and Practice -- Reconciling Religion and Human Need -- Caring for Livestock: Buddhist and Dutch Veterinary Texts -- Moral and Amoral Pet Care in the Edo Period -- Animal Welfare in Modernizing Japan (1850s-1930s): Continuity over Change -- Animal Care and the Fixity of Moral Memory. |
| Summary |
"This volume provides an historical overview of Japan's relationship with animals from ancient times to the 1950s. Its analysis serves as a lens through which to scrutinize Japanese tradition and interrogate ahistorical claims about Japan's culturally endemic empathy for the natural world. Departing from existing scholarship on the subject, the book also connects Japan's much-maligned record of animal exploitation with its strong adherence to contextual, needs-based moral memory"-- Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Japanese -- Ethnozoology.
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Human-animal relationships -- Japan -- History.
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Human-animal relationships |
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Japan |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Brecher, W. Puck. Animal care in Japanese tradition. Ann Arbor, MI : Association for Asian Studies, [2022] 9781952636271 (DLC) 2022008044 |
| ISBN |
9781952636288 electronic book |
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1952636280 electronic book |
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9781952636271 paperback |
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