The history and environmental impacts of hunting deities : supernatural gamekeepers and animal masters / edited by Richard J. Chacon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chacon, Richard J., 1959- editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Conflict, environment, and social complexity ; Volume 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gods.

Hunting.

hunting.

Physical Description:

xix, 376 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer, [2023]

Summary:

This edited volume analyzes the belief in supernatural gamekeepers and/or animal masters of wildlife from a cross-cultural perspective. It documents the antiquity and widespread occurrence of the belief in supernatural gamekeepers at the global level. This interdisciplinary volume documents both the antiquity and the widespread geographical distribution of this belief along with surveying the various manifestations of this cosmology by way of studies from Europe, Asia, Africa, and North and South America. Some chapters explore the manifestations of this belief as they appear in petroglyphs/pictographs and other forms of material culture. Others focus on the environmental impacts of these beliefs/rituals and prescribed foraging restrictions by analyzing how they affect game harvests. The internationally recognized scholars in this volume assess the efficacy of this particular form of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and investigate if adherence to the belief in animal masters actually causes hunters to refrain from overharvesting wild game and thereby contributes to sustainable hunting practices. This volume is of interest to anthropologists, archaeologists and other social scientists researching traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), indigenous conservation, biodiversity, and sustainability practices, and animal deities.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Electronic version: History and environmental impacts of hunting deities.

ISBN:

9783031375026

3031375025

OCLC:

1400083372

Publisher Number:

99995352528