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Frontiers of fear : tigers and people in the Malay world, 1600-1950 / Peter Boomgaard

Author(s): Boomgaard, Peter

Frontiers of fear : tigers and people in the Malay world, 1600-1950 / Peter Boomgaard
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Main Title
Frontiers of fear : tigers and people in the Malay world, 1600-1950
Author(s)
Boomgaard, Peter
Publisher
New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 2001.
Collation
xii, 306 p. : ill., maps
25 cm.
Series Title
Yale agrarian studies
ISBN
9780300206388
Dewey Class
599.756
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. Meeting the Tiger and the Other Big Cats -- 3. The Tiger: Friend or Foe? -- 4. Man-Eating Tigers -- 5. Ancestors for Sale: Bounties for the Big Cats -- 6. Hunting and Trapping -- 7. Tiger and Leopard Rituals at the Javanese Courts, 1605-1906 -- 8. The Ancestral Tiger: From Protection to Punishment -- 9. Devouring the Hearts of the People: The Weretiger -- 10. The Rise, Decline, and Fall of the Tiger -- 11. Living Apart Together.
Language
English
Subject
Tiger -- Southeast Asia -- History.
BRN
6008
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