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Wild man from Borneo : a cultural history of the orangutan / Robert Cribb, Helen Gilbert, Helen Tiffin.
Van Pelt Library QL737.P96 C75 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cribb, R. B., author.
- Gilbert, Helen, 1956- author.
- Tiffin, Helen, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Orangutans.
- Orangutans--Symbolic aspects.
- Human-animal relationships.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2014]
- Contents:
- From satyr to Pongo: discovering the red ape
- "A more than animal intelligence": exploring the species boundary
- Wanted dead or alive: orangutans on display
- Darkest Borneo, savage Sumatra
- Imagining orangutans: fictions, fantasies, futures
- Close encounters and dangerous liaisons
- Monkey business: orangutans on stage and screen
- Zoo stories: becoming animals, unbecoming humans
- On the edge: conservation and the threat of extinction
- Faces in the mirror: evolution, intelligence, and rights.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-306) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780824837143
- 0824837142
- OCLC:
- 855977532
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