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

Title: Frontiers of fear : tigers and people in the Malay world, 1600-1950 / Peter Boomgaard.
Author: Boomgaard, P., 1946-2017.
Publication: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, ©2001.

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Description

xii, 306 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Summary

"Interweaving stories about Malay kings, colonial rulers, tiger-charmers, and bounty hunters with facts about tigers and their way of life, the book is an engrossing combination of environmental and micro history."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Yale agrarian studies series

Uniform Title

University press scholarship online.
Yale agrarian studies.

Subject

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-291) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

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.

ISBN

0300085397
9780300085396

LCCN

2001026536

OCLC

46975010
SCSB-10418286

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library