Herding Monkeys to Paradise

Biographical note Readership Table of contents

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

xviii, 630 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

John Knight, Ph.D. (1992) in Social Anthropology, London School of Economics, is Reader in Anthropology at Queen's University Belfast. He has published extensively on rural Japan and on human-animal relations, including Waiting for Wolves in Japan (Oxford, 2003).

Readership

All those interested in human-animal studies, environmental anthropology, and nature tourism, as well as Japan specialists.

Introduction

Chapter 1 Monkeys in Paradise
Monkeys and Monkey Parks
The Shadow of the Zoo
The ‘Natural Zoo’ Concept
Displaying Forest Monkeys

Chapter 2 Searching for Monkeys
Monkey Avoidance of Humans
The Mobility of the Troop
The Opacity of the Forest
Beyond the Impasse

Chapter 3 Provisioning the Monkeys
Provisioning for Science
Provisioning for Tourism
Provisioning as Crop Protection
Provisioning for Conservation

Chapter 4 Working with Monkeys
Working in the Park
Feeding the Monkeys
Policing the Park
Knowing the Monkeys

Chapter 5 Herding the Monkeys
Remote Herding
Attracting the Troop
Retaining and Returning the Troop
Seasonal Problems

Chapter 6 Keeping Out Monkeys
Park-edge ‘Monkey Damage’
Countermeasures
Counterhabituation
Contesting Responsibility

Chapter 7 Transforming the Monkeys
Proliferation
Sedentarization
Semi-domestication
Culture and Agency

Chapter 8 Restoring the Monkeys
Forest-edge Display
Forest Display
‘Monkeywatching’
Partial Restoration

Conclusion

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