Frontiers of Fear: Tigers and People in the Malay World, 1600-1950Yale University Press, 1 oct. 2008 - 320 pages For centuries, reports of man-eating tigers in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore have circulated, shrouded in myth and anecdote. This fascinating book documents the “big cat”–human relationship in this area during its 350-year colonial period, re-creating a world in which people feared tigers but often came into contact with them, because these fierce predators prefer habitats created by human interference. Peter Boomgaard shows how people and tigers adapted to each other’s behavior, each transmitting this learning from one generation to the next. He discusses the origins of stories and rituals about tigers and explains how cultural biases of Europeans and class differences among indigenous populations affected attitudes toward the tigers. He provides figures on their populations in different eras and analyzes the factors contributing to their present status as an endangered species. Interweaving stories about Malay kings, colonial rulers, tiger charmers, and bounty hunters with facts about tigers and their way of life, the book is an engrossing combination of environmental and micro history. |
Table des matières
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10 | |
Friend or Foe? | 39 |
4 ManEating Tigers | 61 |
Bounties for the Big Cats | 87 |
6 Hunting and Trapping | 107 |
7 Tiger and Leopard Rituals at the Javanese Courts 1605 1906 | 145 |
From Protection to Punishment | 167 |
The Weretiger | 186 |
10 The Rise Decline and Fall of the Tiger | 207 |
11 Living Apart Together | 224 |
Notes | 239 |
References | 265 |
293 | |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Frontiers of Fear - Tigers and People in the Malay World 1600-1950 Peter Boomgaard Aucun aperçu disponible - 2013 |
Frontiers of Fear: Tigers and People in the Malay World, 1600-1950 P. Boomgaard Aucun aperçu disponible - 2001 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
ancestors ancestral tiger animals ARNAS Bali tiger Banten Banyuwangi Batak Batavia beliefs Bengkulu Besluit Besuki big cats Borneo bounties buffalo captured central Java central Javanese Chapter Cirebon clouded leopard colonial court dated Dutch European fear figures forest Governor-General Groot Bundel MGS Hazewinkel 1964 Hoogerwerf 1970 human hunters India indigenous Indonesian island Javan tiger Javanese Jepara Junghuhn Kediri Kerinci kill tigers killed by tigers Krawang large numbers Lodoyo Malay world Malaya Malayan Peninsula man-eating Mataram Mazák mentioned Mohnike nineteenth century number of tigers Palembang period population density Priangan probably Probolinggo Raffles rampog macan rare real tigers regarded regency regions reported Residents to MGS ruler seems shaman sources stories subspecies Sultan Sumatra Sumatran tiger Surakarta tiger areas tiger densities tiger hunting tiger plague tiger population tiger rituals tiger-buffalo fight tiger-charmers tiger-trap tigers and leopards tigers killed tion trap village Volz weretigers western Java wild boar