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A Fairytale in Question: Historical Interactions between Humans and Wolves
Contributor(s): Masius, Patrick (Editor), Sprenger, Jana (Editor)

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 ISBN: 1874267928     ISBN-13: 9781874267928
Publisher: White Horse Press
OUR PRICE: $42.75  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: July 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Nature | Animals - Mammals
- Literary Criticism
- Nature | Animals - Wolves
Dewey: 599.773
Physical Information: 0.73" H x 6" W x 9" L (1.06 lbs) 328 pages
 
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A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS PLACING THE HUMAN-WOLF RELATIONSHIP IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVEInternational in range and chronological in organisation, this volume aims to grasp the maincurrents of thought about interactions with the wolf in modern history. It focuses on perceptions, interactions and dependencies, and includes cultural and social analyses as well as biological aspects. Wolves have been feared and admired, hunted and cared for. At the same historical moment, different cultural and social groups have upheld widely diverging ideas about the wolf. Fundamental dichotomies in modern history, between nature and culture, wilderness and civilisation and danger and security, have been portrayed in terms of wolf-human relationships. The wolf has been part of aesthetic, economic, political, psychological and cultural reasoning albeit it is nowadays mainly addressed as an object of wildlife management. There has been a major shift in perception from dangerous predator to endangered species, but the big bad fairytale wolf remains a cultural icon. This volume roots study of human-wolf relationships coherently within the disciplines of environmental and animal history for the first time.
 
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