Loving and Loathing Wildlife in Japan : Four Animal Conservation Paradigms.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brecher, W. Puck.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (362 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 2025.

Summary:

W. Puck Brecher is professor of Japanese history, Washington State University.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Glossary of Regularly Used Acronyms and Japanese Terms

Chapter 1 - Introduction: Japan's Biodiversity Boondoggle

Part I: Compassionate Control (~1868)

Chapter 2 - Wildlife in Pre-Meiji Culture

Chapter 3 - The Bear Hunter Abides: Material Spirituality in Traditional Japanese Hunting

Part II: Utility (1868-1945)

Chapter 4 - Beneficial and Useful: Early Zoology and Its Applications

Chapter 5 - Hunting, Gun Culture, and Wildlife Use

Chapter 6 - Uses of the Useless: The Japanese Wolf as Human Invention

Part III: Conservation (1868-1980)

Chapter 7 - Parks, Monuments, and Wild Birds: Early Experiments in Conservation

Chapter 8 - Later Conservation: The Allied Occupation and Its Legacy

Part IV: Welfare (1902-1999)

Chapter 9 - Animal Welfare (Dōbutsu Aigo): Paradoxical Paradigm for Wildlife Conservation

Chapter 10 - Conservation in Confinement: Japan's Captive Wildlife Industry

Chapter 11 - Aigo and Wildlife Conservation: An Edifice of Non-Change

Appendix: Japanese Wildlife Currently Listed as Extinct, Critically Endangered, or Endangered

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

979-88-8070-237-4

979-88-8070-238-1

OCLC:

1546965454