The tiger and the pangolin: nature, culture, and conservation in China
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Main Author: Coggins, Chris (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu University of Hawai'i Press ©2003
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-329)
Introduction: a short history of nature conservation in China -- A mountain mosaic: biological and cultural diversity -- Lord of the hundred beasts: a history of tigers and people in southeast China -- The wealth of mountains: settlement, subsistence, and population change in Meihuashan before 1949 -- Three rises, two falls: political ecology and socioeconomic development in Meihuashan after 1949 -- Burning the mountains: a historical landscape ecology of the Meihuashan ecosystem -- Habitat conservation in the post-reform landscape -- White tigers and Azure dragons: Fengshui forests, sacred space, and the preservation of biodiversity in village landscapes -- Eating from the mountain: hunting traditions, the wildlife trade, and wildlife management -- Vital connections: linking nature conservation and cultural ecology in southeast China and beyond
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 339 pages)
ISBN:0585479135
0824825063
082486512X
9780585479132
9780824825065
9780824865122

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