The Tiger and the Pangolin: Nature, Culture, and Conservation in China 9780824865122
This original and wide-ranging work examines historical perceptions of nature in China and the relationship between insi
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English Pages 360 Year 2002
Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: A Short History of Nature Conservation in China
PART I. The Southeast Uplands: People, Landscapes, and Wildlife
2. A Mountain Mosaic: Biological and Cultural Diversity
3. Lord of the Hundred Beasts: A History of Tigers and People in Southeast China
PART II. The Tiger and the Pangolin: An Environmental History of the Plumflower Mountains
4. The Wealth of Mountains: Settlement, Subsistence, and Population Change in Meihuashan before 1949
5. Three Rises, Two Falls: Political Ecology and Socioeconomic Development in Meihuashan after 1949
6. Burning the Mountains: A Historical Landscape Ecology of the Meihuashan Ecosystem
PART III. Contemporary Village Resource Management and Nature Conservation Strategies
7. Habitat Conservation in the Post-Reform Landscape
8. White Tigers and Azure Dragons: Fengshui Forests, Sacred Space, and the Preservation of Biodiversity in Village Landscapes
9. Eating from the Mountain: Hunting Traditions, the Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Management
10. Vital Connections: Linking Nature Conservation and Cultural Ecology in Southeast China and Beyond
Appendix. Life Histories of the Five Major Wild Ungulates of the Southeast Uplands
Notes
Glossary
References
Index
