- Paperback: 199 pages
- Publisher: Reaktion Books; Original edition (Mar 15 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1861898797
- ISBN-13: 978-1861898791
- Product Dimensions: 19 x 13.4 x 1.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 340 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #210,413 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Feared and revered, the wolf has been admired as a powerful hunter and symbol of the wild and reviled for its danger to humans and livestock. Garry Marvin reveals in Wolf how the ways in which wolves are imagined has had far-reaching implications for how actual wolves are treated by humans.
Indigenous hunting societies originally respected the wolf as a fellow hunter, but with the domestication of animals the wolf became regarded as an enemy due to its attacks on livestock. Wolves, as a result, developed a reputation as creatures of evil. In children’s literature, they were depicted as the intruder from the wild who preys on the innocent. And in popular culture, the wolf became the creature that evil humans can transform into—the dreaded werewolf. Fear of this enigmatic creature, Marvin shows, led to an attempt to eradicate it as a species. However, with the development of scientific understanding of wolves and their place in ecological systems and the growth of popular environmentalism, the wolf has been rethought and reimagined. The wolf now has a legion of new supporters who regard it as a charismatic creature of the newly valued wild and wilderness.
Marvin investigates the latest scientific understanding of the wolf, as well as its place in literature, history, and folklore, offering insights into our changing attitudes towards wolves.
About the Author
Garry Marvin is professor of human–animal studies in the Department of Life Sciences at the University of Roehampton. He has published widely in the field of animal studies and is one of the founding editors of Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing. His other books include Zoo Culture and Killing Animals.
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Cultural history of man and wolves, a complex relationship., April 13 2012
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Reaktion animal books have set up a high benchmark for their publications and this latest edition on the WOLF continues that tradition. This is not a wolf biology book, but an important overview of the history of wolf/human relationships through out history as seen in folklore, fairytales, literature and all aspects where the wolves and humans meet in conflict on this planet. History, politics, religion, culture and conservation all take a role in this most complex story of the survival of two separate species, canis lupus and homosapien. Beautifully illustrated with book covers, paintings, historical posters and documents this is a extraordinary non-fiction story of mans complex relationship with what can only be described as his natural equal. It is perhaps that inability for humans to recognise this equality that makes this historically endless wolf/human conflict so volatile.199 pages, 93 illustrations, 63 in colour
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