Waiting for wolves in Japan : an anthropological study of people-wildlife relations / John Knight.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knight, John, 1960-

Series:

Oxford studies in social and cultural anthropology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wolves--Japan.

Wolves.

Wildlife pests--Control--Japan.

Wildlife pests.

Wildlife pests--Control.

Japan.

Human ecology--Japan.

Human ecology.

Physical Description:

x, 296 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Summary:

A Japanese conservationist group has launched a campaign for the reintroduction of the wolf in Japan, arguing that the wolf would be the savior of upland areas of Japan which are suffering from wildlife pestilence. This book examines the reintroduction proposal by drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in one of the candidate areas, and shows that conflicts with wildlife are inextricably bound up with social conflict among people, and that wildlife pestilence must therefore be understood in terms of its symbolic, as well as material dimensions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-289) and index.

ISBN:

0199255180

OCLC:

51108249