Frontiers of fear : tigers and people in the Malay world, 1600-1950 / Peter Boomgaard
Author(s): Boomgaard, Peter
Library Item Details
- 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
Availability
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Rotunda Library & Archive
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599.756 BOO
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