Cow : a bovine biography / Florian Werner ; translated from the German by Doris Ecker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Werner, Florian, 1971-

Standardized Title:

Kuh. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Cows.

Physical Description:

x, 229 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : Greystone Books, 2012.

Summary:

In Cow, Florian Werner shows just how important cows have been to our cultural and social evolution. Humans, through millennia of breeding, shaped the cow into the animal it is today. Cows, in turn, furnished humans with a multitude of products, in life and in death, freeing us from the daily hunt and enabling us to settle and form civilizations.

Originally published in German, Cow draws examples from cultures around the world to highlight our relationship with this often misunderstood animal. Florian Werner deconstructs the cow into its component parts, from its milk to its meat to its moo, and shows how each of them has left its imprint on our literature, art, music, and everyday language. Book jacket.

Contents:

In the Beginning Was the Cow 1

A Kingdom for a Cow 12

Flesh and Blood 29

Milk 39

Hide and Hair 55

Udder and Vulva 70

The Eye 86

Happiness through Rumination 100

Herding Cows 113

The Moo 127

Behind the Fence 139

Sacred Cows 155

Evil Cows 168

Apocalypse Cow 186

Notes 201

Bibliography 211

Image Credits 220

Acknowledgments 222

Index 223.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-219) and index.

ISBN:

1553655818

9781553655817

OCLC:

754318683

Publisher Number:

99947645881