The wolf : culture, nature, heritage /: culture, nature, heritage. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Ian Convery, Peter Davis, Karen Lloyd, Owen T. Nevin and Erwin van Maanen.
• Editors: Convery, Ian, 1965-; Davis, Peter; Lloyd, Karen; Nevin, Owen; Van Maanen, Erwin
• Contents: Intro -- Half Title Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Poem: Trophic Cascade by Camille T Dungy -- Foreword -- Part I. Imagining the Wolf -- 1 The Wolf in the Human Mind Across Space and Time -- 2 A History of Wolves and People in France -- 3 Wolves and Other Mammals Hunted in Medieval English Forests -- 4 'Uuluesheued!' The Historical Significance of the Wolf to Early Indo-Europeans -- 5 Wolves Behind Bars 6 Nazi Werewolves from Outer Space: Posthuman-Wolf-Multiplicities and their (Mis)appropriations -- 7 Never Mind the Girl -- What About the Wolf? -- 8 Whose Wolf Is It Anyway? Wolves, Wilderness and Belonging -- 9 Defined 'as much by their absence as their iconography': Reimagining Wolves in Cumbria in Sarah Hall's The Wolf Border -- 10 A 'Wasteland' Infested by Wolves: The Fallacy of 'Dark Age' England -- Part II. What Makes the Wolf? -- 11 The Wolf Pack -- 12 The Wolf in the Pastoral System of Southern France -- 13 Contemporary Public Images of the Wolf 14 The Sweetness of Freedom: Reflections on the Occasion of the Japanese Wolf -- 15 Reimagining the Dingo: The 'Australian Wolf' or Just a Feral Dog? -- 16 Pushing the Ecological Niche: A Sea Wolf Called Takaya -- 17 'Hunger-Greedy Appetite': The Wolf in Early-Modern English Natural History -- 18 What About the Coywolf? -- 19 Is That a Wolf? Politics, Science and Red Wolf Identity -- 20 The Thylacine: A Wolf in Name Only -- Part III. Return of the Wolf -- 21 Landscapes of Coexistence: Livestock and Wolves in the Mountains of North Spain 22 The Wolves of Yellowstone: Saviours of the Songbird or Pieces of the Puzzle? -- 23 Wolf-Beaver Dynamics in the Greater Voyageurs Ecosystem, Minnesota -- 24 The Return of the Wolf in Germany: A Success Story of Rewilding with a Future? -- 25 Finding Common Ground with Wolves: Interspecies Communication in a Shared Landscape -- 26 The Case for Wolves in the UK -- Part IV. Personal Encounters -- 27 Tracking Wolves in Western Europe: A Photo-Essay -- 28 Speaking Out for Wolves: A Personal Reflection -- 29 To Receive the Wolf -- 30 Úlfr and Gris: Spectral Animal Companions of the Atomic Priest 31 The Three-Legged Stool: Wolves, Shepherds and Sheep -- 32 The Helsfell Wolf -- Afterword: The Ecological Disadvantage of Living on an Island -- Glossary -- List of Contributors
• Publisher Details: Woodbridge, Suffolk : Boydell Press
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 599.773; Wolves; Human ecology; Wolves -- Folklore; Wolves -- Symbolic aspects; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781805430551; 1805430556; 9781805430568; 1805430564
• Related ISBNs: 1837650152; 9781837650156
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version record.
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