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Goat / Joy Hinson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hinson, Joy, author.
- Series:
- Animal (Reaktion Books)
- Animal series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Goats.
- Social aspects.
- History.
- Capra.
- Goats--History.
- Goats--Social aspects.
- Goats--Symbolic aspects.
- Goats in art.
- Human-animal relationships.
- Animals and civilization.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 173 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 19 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London, UK : Reaktion Books, 2015.
- Summary:
- "Adaptable, resilient, yet often overlooked, the goat--sometimes called the 'poor man's cow'--is found in nearly every part of the world where humans live. But our relationship with this strange yet familiar animal is oddly ambivalent. Goat explores the reasons behind this unease, from our interaction with the endangered wild species of remote mountainous regions to the more familiar farmyard animal."--Page 4 of cover.
- Contents:
- A natural history of the goat
- The domesticated goat
- The feral goat
- The goat of myth and folklore
- The medicinal goat
- The twenty-first-century goat
- Timeline.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-163) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781780233383
- 1780233388
- OCLC:
- 908175526
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