Waiting for Wolves in Japan : An Anthropological Study of People-Wildlife Relations

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Acknowledgements	p. ix
List of Figures	p. xi
A Note on the Text	p. xiii
Abbreviations	p. xiv
Introduction	p. 1
Wildlife 'Wars'	p. 1
The Return of the Wolf?	p. 3
Benign Predation	p. 8
Utilitarianism and Symbolism	p. 13
Mountain Villages	p. 20
Farmers	p. 21
Foresters	p. 29
Hunters	p. 37
Animals	p. 43
Wild Boar	p. 48
Images of the Boar	p. 49
Farmers and Boars	p. 51
Hunters and Boars	p. 68
Farmers, Hunters, and Boars	p. 79
Monkeys	p. 84
Images of the Monkey	p. 85
Monkey Wars	p. 87
The War Idiom	p. 97
Killing Monkeys	p. 110
Feeding Monkeys	p. 115
Deer and Serow	p. 123
Images of Deer and Serow	p. 125
Foresters and Herbivores	p. 131
Hunters and Herbivores	p. 138
National Animals	p. 147
Bears	p. 159
Images of the Bear	p. 161
The Problem of Bears	p. 168
Hunters and Bears	p. 179
Conservationists and Bears	p. 186
Wolves	p. 194
Images of the Wolf	p. 194
From Wolves to Dogs	p. 209
The Wolf Reintroduction Proposal	p. 216
Hunters and Wolves	p. 230
Conclusion	p. 235
Wild Modern Peripheries	p. 235
The Symbolism of the Pest	p. 237
The Symbolism of the Wolf	p. 246
Bibliography	p. 255
Japanese	p. 255
English	p. 275
Index	p. 291
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