Bear and Human. Facets of a Multi-Layered Relationship from Past to Recent Times, with Emphasis on Northern Europe
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From Libreria Studio Bosazzi, Firenze, FI, Italy
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From Libreria Studio Bosazzi, Firenze, FI, Italy
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Oliver Grimm (ed) Pages:3 vols, 1198 p. Illustrations:104 b/w, 290 col., 67 tables b/w., 2 tables col., 10 maps b/w, 44 maps color. Language(s):English. Publication Year:2023. Brepols, ISBN: 978-2-503-60611-8 - Hardback - SUMMARY Bears have, throughout human history, been admired and feared by humans in equal measure, with an interrelationship between the two species identifiable from pre-modern times through a wealth of material items, as well as from cult sites, sacral remains, images, and written sources. This unique interdisciplinary volume draws together sixty-four contributions by experts from across a range of fields in order to shed light on the complex connections between bears and humans in a period extending from the pre-modern into modern times, and across an area stretching from England into Russia. From bear biology (represented by work from the Scandinavian Brown Bear Research Project) and archaeo(zoo)logy to art history, and from history of religion to philology, the research gathered across this three-volume set explores a wide-range of subjects. Among them are the bear in biology, bears and animal agency, bear remains in graves and churches, the role of bears in religious beliefs (including berserker and bear ceremonialism), bears in literature, the philology underpinning why bear is a taboo word, and the image of the bear in rock art, as well as political iconography up to the present day. Together, these wide-ranging but closely thematic texts combine to produce a ground-breaking new work that will prove fundamental in understanding the human connection with this remarkable animal. TABLE OF CONTENTS Book 1 List of contents Foreword by Oliver Grimm Chapter 1 Bear and human: Facets of a multi-layered relationship introduction, discussion and synthesis Bear and human introduction, discussion and synthesis Oliver Grimm Chapter 2 Bears in biology (Europe) Conservation status and distribution of the brown bear in Europe Andreas Zedrosser and Jon E. Swenson The history of the Scandinavian Brown Bear Research Project a formidable success story Jon E. Swenson and Sven Brunberg The management of brown bears in Sweden, Norway and Finland Michael Schneider, Andreas Zedrosser, Ilpo Kojola and Jon E. Swenson Genetics of brown bears in northern Europe Alexander Kopatz Hibernation ecology of brown bears in Sweden Andrea Friebe, Jon E. Swenson and Andreas Zedrosser The social system of a nonsocial species, the brown bear Andreas Zedrosser, Shane C. Frank, Jennifer E. Hansen, Sam M. J. G. Steyaert, J. E. Swenson Sexually selected infanticide as a mating strategy in brown bears Andreas Zedrosser, Sam M. J. G. Steyaert and Jon E. Swenson Bears fact and fiction about bear hunting and intelligence Oliver Grimm, Andreas Zedrosser and Jon E. Swenson Chapter 3 Bear hunting (Europe) Bear hunting in the later Middle Ages and early modern period, viewed from the perspective of art history and contemporary textual sources Richard Almond Chapter 4 Animal agency (northern Europe) Posthuman bears: Sight, agency, and baiting in Early Modern England Liam Lewis Chapter 5 Bears in long-term archaeo(zoo)logical studies (northern Europe) Brown bears in burials and entertainment in later prehistoric to modern Britain (c. 2400 BC AD 1900s) Hannah J. O Regan Bears and humans in Sweden 10,000 years of interactions from the Mesolithic to the Middle Ages Ola Magnell Zooarchaeological brown bear (Ursus arctos) finds in eastern Fennoscandia Kristiina Mannermaa, Tuija Kirkinen and Suvi Viranta-Kovanen The history of the brown bear (Ursus arctos L.) in the northern German lowlands Ulrich Schmölcke In the company of bears: The role and significance of the bear from the perspective of the Holocene hunter-gatherer-fishers of the East European Plain forest zone (10th 3rd millennium BC) Ekaterina A. Kashina and Anastasia A. Khramtsova Chapter 6 Bears in archaeo(zoo)logical, focused analysis (northern Europe) The White One: How to fr. Seller Inventory # ca3145
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