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Wolf / Garry Marvin.
Van Pelt Library QL737.C22 M37 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marvin, Garry.
- Series:
- Animal (Reaktion Books)
- Animal
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gray wolf.
- Wolves.
- Wolves--Social aspects.
- Wolves--Symbolic aspects.
- Human-wolf encounters.
- Wolves in art.
- Wolves in literature.
- Wolves--Folklore.
- Animals in motion pictures.
- Human-animal relationships.
- Wolves--Conservation.
- Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 199 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Reaktion Books, 2012.
- Summary:
- Feared and revered, the wolf has been admired as a powerful hunter and symbol of the wild and reviled for its danger to humans and livestock. Garry Marvin reveals in Wolf how the ways in which wolves are imagined has had far-reaching implications for how actual wolves are treated by humans.
- Contents:
- Canis lupus
- Lupophobia
- Lupicide
- Lupophilia
- Rewilding.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-194) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781861898791
- 1861898797
- OCLC:
- 714726338
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