Animals and Human Society in Asia Historical, Cultural and Ethical Perspectives /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kowner, Rotem (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Bar-Oz, Guy (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Biran, Michal (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Shahar, Meir (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Shelach-Lavi, Gideon (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
• Subjects: Ethics.; Social sciences-Philosophy.; Philosophy of nature.; Animal welfare.; Social Philosophy.; Philosophy of Nature.; Animal Welfare/Animal Ethics.

"Animal studies is a vibrant field that renews humanities by breaking many barriers. This intense and beautiful volume exemplifies such breaking and renewing, as it connects Far-eastern and Near-eastern areas and the steppe world in between, and develops an engaged dialogue between archeology,...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Animals and Human Society in Asia: An Overview and Premises. Rotem Kowner, Guy Bar-Oz, Michal Biran, Meri Shahar and Gideon Shelach-Lavi
• Part I: Hunting and Domestication
• Chapter 2. When Elephants Roamed Asia: The Significance of Proboscideans in Diet, Culture and Cosmology in Paleolithic Asia. Ran Barkai
• Chapter 3. Hunting to Herding to Trading to Warfare: A Chronology of Animal Exploitation in the Negev. Steven A. Rosen
• Chapter 4. Domestication of the Donkey (Equus asinus) in the Southern Levant: Archaeozoology, Iconography and Economy. Ianir Milevski and Liora Kolska Horwitz
• Part II: Animals as Food
• Chapter 5. Spilling Blood: Conflict and Culture over Animal Slaughter in Mongol Eurasia. Timothy May
• Chapter 6. China's Dairy Century: Making, Drinking and Dreaming of Milk. Thomas David DuBois
• Chapter 7. Tuna as Economic Resource and Symbolic Capital in Japan's "Imperialism of the Sea". Nadin Heé
• Part III: Animals at War
• Chapter 8. Elephants in Mongol History: From Military Obstacles to Symbols of Buddhist Power. William G. Clarence-Smith
• Chapter 9. The Mamluk's Best Friend: The Mounts of the Military Elite of Egypt and Eurasian Steppe in the Late Middle-Ages. Reuven Amitai and Gila Kahila Bar-Gal
• Chapter 10. A Million Horses: Raising Government Horses in Early Ming China. Noa Grass
• Part IV: Animals in Culture and Religion
• Chapter 11: From Lion to Tiger: The Changing Buddhist Images of Apex Predators in Trans-Asian Contexts. Xing Zhang and Huaiyu Chen
• Chapter 12. The Chinese Cult of the Horse King, Divine Protector of the Equines. Meir Shahar
• Chapter 13. Animal Signs: Therimorphic Intercession between Heaven and Imperial Mongolian History. Brian Baumann. .