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The Wolf - Culture, Nature, Heritage
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The Wolf - Culture, Nature, Heritage
Series: Heritage Matters
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New insights into the changing human attitudes towards wild nature
through the depiction of wolves in human culture and heritage. Few
animals arouse such strong opinion as the wolf. It occupies a
contested, ambiguous, yet central role in human culture and
heritage. It appears as both an inspirational emblem of the wild
and an embodiment of evil. Offering a mirror to different human
attitudes, beliefs, and values, the wolf is, arguably, the species
that plays the greatest role in shaping our views on what nature is
or should be. North America and, more recently, Europe have
witnessed a remarkable return of the grey wolf (Canis lupus, and
its close relative the Eurasian wolf, Canis lupus lupus) to
eco-systems. The essays collected here explore aspects of this
recovery, and consider the history, literature and myth surrounding
this iconic species. There are chapters on wolf taxonomy, including
the coywolf, the red wolf, and the many faces of the dingo. We also
meet the Tasmanian wolf and encounter Nazi Werewolves from Outer
Space. The book explores the challenges of separating fact from
fiction and superstition, and our willingness to co-exist with
large carnivores in the twenty-first century. Biologists,
historians, anthropologists, cultural theorists, conservationists
and museologists will all find riches in the detail presented in
this wolf collection.
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