Frontiers of Fear : Tigers and People in the Malay World, 1600-1950

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ISBN: 9780300085396 | 0300085397
Cover: Trade Book
Copyright: 11/10/2001

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Peter Boomgaard is senior researcher at the Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology, Leiden, the Netherlands, and professor of economic and environmental history of Southeast Asia at the University of Amsterdam.

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

(9)

Meeting the Tiger and the Other Big Cats

(29)

The Tiger: Friend or Foe?

(22)

Man-Eating Tigers

(26)

Ancestors for Sale: Bounties for the Big Cats

(20)

Hunting and Trapping

107

(38)

Tiger and Leopard Rituals at the Javanese Courts, 1605--1906

145

(22)

The Ancestral Tiger: From Protection to Punishment

167

(19)

Devouring the Hearts of the People: The Weretiger

186

(21)

The Rise, Decline, and Fall of the Tiger

207

(17)

Living Apart Together

224

(15)

Notes

239

(26)

Reference

265

(28)

Index

293

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Frontiers of Fear : Tigers and People in the Malay World, 1600-1950

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