Animals and Human Society in Asia : Historical, Cultural and Ethical Perspectives /

"Animal studies is a vibrant field that renews humanities by breaking many barriers. This intense and beautiful volume exemplifies such breaking and renewing, as it connects Far-eastern and Near-eastern areas and the steppe world in between, and develops an engaged dialogue between archeology,...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Kowner, Rotem (Editor), Bar-Oz, Guy (Editor), Biran, Michal (Editor), Shahar, Meir (Editor), Shelach-Lavi, Gideon (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Edition:	1st ed. 2019.
Series:	The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series,
Subjects:	Ethics. Social sciences-Philosophy. Philosophy of nature. Animal welfare. Social Philosophy. Philosophy of Nature. Animal Welfare/Animal Ethics. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction: Animals and Human Society in Asia: An Overview and Premises. Rotem Kowner, Guy Bar-Oz, Michal Biran, Meri Shahar and Gideon Shelach-Lavi
Part I: Hunting and Domestication
Chapter 2. When Elephants Roamed Asia: The Significance of Proboscideans in Diet, Culture and Cosmology in Paleolithic Asia. Ran Barkai
Chapter 3. Hunting to Herding to Trading to Warfare: A Chronology of Animal Exploitation in the Negev. Steven A. Rosen
Chapter 4. Domestication of the Donkey (Equus asinus) in the Southern Levant: Archaeozoology, Iconography and Economy. Ianir Milevski and Liora Kolska Horwitz
Part II: Animals as Food
Chapter 5. Spilling Blood: Conflict and Culture over Animal Slaughter in Mongol Eurasia. Timothy May
Chapter 6. China's Dairy Century: Making, Drinking and Dreaming of Milk. Thomas David DuBois
Chapter 7. Tuna as Economic Resource and Symbolic Capital in Japan's "Imperialism of the Sea". Nadin Heé
Part III: Animals at War
Chapter 8. Elephants in Mongol History: From Military Obstacles to Symbols of Buddhist Power. William G. Clarence-Smith
Chapter 9. The Mamluk's Best Friend: The Mounts of the Military Elite of Egypt and Eurasian Steppe in the Late Middle-Ages. Reuven Amitai and Gila Kahila Bar-Gal
Chapter 10. A Million Horses: Raising Government Horses in Early Ming China. Noa Grass
Part IV: Animals in Culture and Religion
Chapter 11: From Lion to Tiger: The Changing Buddhist Images of Apex Predators in Trans-Asian Contexts. Xing Zhang and Huaiyu Chen
Chapter 12. The Chinese Cult of the Horse King, Divine Protector of the Equines. Meir Shahar
Chapter 13. Animal Signs: Therimorphic Intercession between Heaven and Imperial Mongolian History. Brian Baumann. .