Syndetics cover image
Image from Syndetics

Bears : a brief history / Bernd Brunner ; translated from the German by Lori Lantz.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Publication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2007.Description: 259 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0300122993 (alk. paper)
  • 9780300122992 (alk. paper)
Uniform titles:
  • Kurze Geschichte der Bären. English
Subject(s):
Contents:
Tracking the paths of bears -- Transformations -- The mystery of the cave bear -- False steps -- Exotic discoveries -- The bear's personality -- Sounds, senses, signals -- Bears as pets -- On observer in Eastern Siberia -- Face to face -- Hunters and hunted -- The Inuit and polar bears -- Closer than close -- Bears on show -- Bear substitutes -- "Bearanoia".
Summary: Delightfully illustrated history of the complex relations between people and bears around the world.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 599.78 B897 Available 33111005406562
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This engaging book examines the shared history of people and bears. Hopscotching through history, literature, and science, Bernd Brunner presents a rich compendium of the interactions between the two species and explores how bears have become central figures in our inventory of myths and dreams. He reveals the remarkable extent to which human feelings about bears have been--and still are--mixed. People have venerated, killed, caressed, tortured, nurtured, eaten, worshipped, and despised bears. Interestingly, the varied dealings of humans with bears raise the same question over and again: do our images of bears have much in common with the animal as it really is?

 

The book uncovers new and little-known stories and facts about bears in European, North American, Japanese, Russian, and South and Southeast Asian cultures. Taken together, these perspectives show us new things about the animals we thought we knew so well. Quirky and bizarre anecdotes, scientific information on bears threatened with extinction in some areas, a discussion of the phenomenon of "bearanoia," and more than one hundred historical illustrations contribute to this unique account of the shared history between bears and humans and the continuing presence of bears in our personal and collective dreams.

 

 

"Originally published in German ... in 2005 by Classen Verlag."--T.p. verso.

Translated from the German.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-252) and index.

Tracking the paths of bears -- Transformations -- The mystery of the cave bear -- False steps -- Exotic discoveries -- The bear's personality -- Sounds, senses, signals -- Bears as pets -- On observer in Eastern Siberia -- Face to face -- Hunters and hunted -- The Inuit and polar bears -- Closer than close -- Bears on show -- Bear substitutes -- "Bearanoia".

Delightfully illustrated history of the complex relations between people and bears around the world.

Powered by Koha