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

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3030243621
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3030243623
• Author:  Rotem Kowner (Editor), Guy Bar-Oz (Editor), Michal Biran (Editor), Meir Shahar (Editor), Gideon Shelach-Lavi (Editor)

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the different aspects of human-animal interactions in Asia throughout history. With twelve thematically-arranged chapters, it examines the diverse roles that beasts, livestock, and fish ― real and metaphorical–have played in Asian history, society, and culture.
Ranging from prehistory to the present day, the authors address a wealth of topics including the domestication of animals, dietary practices and sacrifice, hunting, the use of animals in war, and the representation of animals in literature and art. Providing a unique perspective on human interaction with the environment, this volume is cross-disciplinary in its reach, offering enriching insights to the fields of animal ethics, Asian studies, world history and more.

Table of contents:

1. Animals and Human Society in Asia: An Overview and Premises

Part I. Hunting and Domestication

2. When Elephants Roamed Asia: The Significance of Proboscideans in Diet, Culture and Cosmology in Paleolithic Asia

3. Hunting to Herding to Trading to Warfare: A Chronology of Animal Exploitation in the Negev

4. Domestication of the Donkey (Equus asinus) in the Southern Levant: Archaeozoology, Iconography and Economy

Part II. Animals as Food

5. Spilling Blood: Conflict and Culture over Animal Slaughter in Mongol Eurasia

6. China’s Dairy Century: Making, Drinking and Dreaming of Milk

7. Tuna as an Economic Resource and Symbolic Capital in Japan’s “Imperialism of the Sea”

Part III. Animals at War

8. Elephants in Mongol History: From Military Obstacles to Symbols of Buddhist Power

9. The Mamluk’s Best Friend: The Mounts of the Military Elite of Egypt and Syria in the Late Middle-Ages

10. A Million Horses: Raising Government Horses in Early Ming China

Part IV. Animals in Culture and Religion

11. From Lion to Tiger: The Changing Buddhist Images of Apex Predators in Trans-Asian Contexts

12. The Chinese Cult of the Horse King, Divine Protector of Equines

13. Animal Signs: Theriomorphic Intercession Between Heaven and Imperial Mongolian History

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