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Sheep / Philip Armstrong.

Title
Sheep / Philip Armstrong.
Author
Armstrong, Philip, 1967-
Publication
  • London, UK : Reaktion Books Ltd, 2016.
  • ©2016

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Description
200 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 19 cm.
Summary
"Philip Armstrong traces the natural and cultural history of both the wild and domestic species of Ovis, from the Old World mouflon to the cannibal sheep of Thomas More's Utopia, to Dolly the cloned ewe and the sheep-human hybrids of Haruki Murakami."--Page 4 of cover.
Series Statement
Animal
Uniform Title
Animal (Reaktion Books)
Subject
  • Sheep
  • Sheep > History
  • Sheep > Social aspects
  • Sheep > Symbolic aspects
  • Sheep in art
  • Human-animal relationships
  • Animals and civilization
  • Sheep
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-188) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Sheepishness -- How sheep became -- Ancient yarns -- A sheep-shaped world -- Little lamb, who made thee? -- Sheepliness.
ISBN
  • 9781780235936
  • 1780235933
OCLC
920718507
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library