The Wolf

Culture, Nature, Heritage
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-83765-015-6
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 25, 434 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 953 g

Reihe: Heritage Matters

New insights into the changing human attitudes towards wild nature through the depiction of wolves in human culture and heritage.

Few animals arouse such strong opinion as the wolf. It occupies a contested, ambiguous, yet central role in human culture and heritage. It appears as both an inspirational emblem of the wild and an embodiment of evil. Offering a mirror to different human attitudes, beliefs, and values, the wolf is, arguably, the species that plays the greatest role in shaping our views on what nature is or should be.

North America and, more recently, Europe have witnessed a remarkable return of the grey wolf (Canis lupus, and its close relative the Eurasian wolf, Canis lupus lupus) to eco-systems. The essays collected here explore aspects of this recovery, and consider the history, literature and myth surrounding this iconic species. There are chapters on wolf taxonomy, including the coywolf, the red wolf, and the many faces of the dingo. We also meet the Tasmanian wolf and encounter Nazi Werewolves from Outer Space. The book explores the challenges of separating fact from fiction and superstition, and our willingness to co-exist with large carnivores in the twenty-first century. Biologists, historians, anthropologists, cultural theorists, conservationists and museologists will all find riches in the detail presented in this wolf collection.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Convery, Ian

Nevin, Owen

Maanen, Erwin van van

Davis, Peter

Lloyd, Karen

Weitere Mitwirkende

Addyman, Marie

Alexander, Cheryl

Appleby, Robert G.

Beyers, Rene

Blackshaw-Crosby, Elsie

Boitani, Luigi

Borelli, Jean-Luc

Bradshaw, Penny

Brady, Deborah

Brewitt, Peter

Brückner, James

Bruggink, John G.

Bump, Joseph K.

Campbell, Cameron R.

Cairns, Kylie M.

Clark-Wolf, TJ

Cowie, Helen

Drenthen, Martin

Dykes, Nigel

Figari, Helene

Fisher, Mark

Funk, Holger

Gable, Thomas D.

Giles, Lawson

Hayes, Tracy

Homkes, Austin T.

Johnson-Bice, Sean

Landry, Jean-Marc

Lenders, Rob

Marshall, Elizabeth

Mcphie, Jamie

Monzón, Javier D.

Moriceau, Jean-Marc

Powici, Chris

Raye, Lee

Schofield, Lee

Skogen, Ketil

Sleightholme, Stephen R.

Smith, Bradley P.

Williams, Robert

Windels, Steve K.

van Uitert, Marielle

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface & Acknowledgments

Poem: Trophic Cascade by Camille T. Dungy

Foreword

Luigi Boitani

Part I: Imagining the Wolf

1. The Wolf in the Human Mind Across Space and Time

Erwin van Maanen

2. A History of Wolves and People in France

Jean-Marc MoriceauandP van Maanen

3. WolvesandOtherMammalsHunted in Medieval English Forests

Lee Raye

4. 'Uuluesheued!' The Historical Significance of the Wolf to Early Indo-Europeans

Rob Lenders

5. Wolves Behind Bars

Helen Cowie

6. Nazi Werewolves from Outer Space: Posthuman-wolf-multiplicities and Their (Mis)appropriations

Jamie Mcphie

7. Never Mind the Girl; What about the Wolf?

Marie Addyman

8. Whose Wolf Is It Anyway? Wolves, Wilderness and Belonging

Chris Powici

9. Defined 'as much by their absence as their iconography': Reimagining Wolves in Cumbria in Sarah Hall's The Wolf Border

Penny Bradshaw

10. A 'Wasteland' Infested by Wolves: The Fallacy of 'Dark Age' England

Elizabeth Marshall

Part II: What Makes the Wolf?

11. The Wolf Pack

Peter Davis

12. The Wolf in the Pastoral System of Southern France

Jean-Marc Landry and Jean-Luc Borelli

13.Contemporary Public Images of the Wolf

Helene Figari and Ketil Skogen

14. "The Sweetness of Freedom": Reflections on the Occasion of the Japanese Wolf

Holger Funk

15. Reimagining the Dingo: The 'Australian Wolf' or Just a Feral Dog?

Bradley P. Smith, Robert G. Appleby and Kylie M. Cairns

16. 'Pushing the Ecological Niche: A Sea Wolf Called Takaya.'

Cheryl Alexander and Karen Lloyd

17. 'Hunger-Greedy Appetite': The Wolf in Early-Modern English Natural History

Marie Addyman

18. What About the Coywolf?

Javier D. Monzón

19. Is that a wolf? Politics, Science and Red Wolf Identity

Peter Brewitt and Lawson Giles

20. The Thylacine - A Wolf in Name Only

Stephen R. Sleightholme and Cameron R. Campbell

Part III: Return of the Wolf

21. Landscapes of Coexistence: Livestock and Wolves in the Mountains of North Spain

Nigel Dykes

22. The Wolves of Yellowstone - Saviour of the Songbird or Piece of the Puzzle?

TJ Clark-Wolf, Rene Beyers, Peter Brewitt, Ian Convery & Owen Nevin

23. Wolf-Beaver Dynamics in the Greater Voyageurs Ecosystem, Minnesota

Thomas D. Gable, Sean Johnson-Bice, Austin T. Homkes, Steve K. Windels, John G. Bruggink, and Joseph K. Bump

24. The Return of the Wolf in Germany: A Success Story of Rewilding with a Future?

James Brückner and Erwin van Maanen

25. Finding Common Ground with Wolves: Interspecies Communication is a Shared Landscape

Martin Drenthen

26. The Case for Wolves in the UK

Ian Convery, Owen Nevin, Elsie Blackshaw-Crosby, Deborah Brady & Mark Fisher

Part IV Personal Encounters

27. Tracking Wolves in Western Europe: A Photo-Essay
Photography by Marielle van Uitert and text by Karen Lloyd
28. Speaking Out for Wolves: A Personal Reflection
Tracy Hayes
29. To Receive the Wolf
Karen Lloyd
30. Úlfr and Gris: Spectral Animal Companions of the Atomic Priest
Robert Williams
31. The Three-Legged Stool: Wolves, Shepherds and Sheep
Lee Schofield
32. The Helsfell Wolf
Karen Lloyd
Afterword: The Ecological Disadvantage of Living on an Island

Mark Fisher

Über Autor(innen)

Marshall, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Marshall gained her PhD from the University of St Andrews, receiving awards for both her thesis and for her work researching the cultural and sociological issues related to top predator reintroduction to Britain.

Convery, Ian
IAN CONVERY is Professor of Environment & Society at the University of Cumbria. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and is a director of the Lifescapes Project conservation charity.

Nevin, Owen
OWEN T. NEVIN is Chief Executive Officer of the Western Australian Biodiversity Science Institute (WABSI), Adjunct Professor of Conservation Biology at CQUniversity Australia and Anniversary Visiting Professor of Conservation Biology at the University of Cumbria

Maanen, Erwin van van
Erwin van Maanen of EcoNatura is a (conservation) biologist, with a specific interest in mammalian carnivore ecology.

Davis, Peter
PETER DAVIS is Emeritus Professor of Museology in the School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University, UK. His research interests relate to the connections between place, nature, heritage, communities and sustainability.

Lloyd, Karen
Karen Lloyd is the writer in residence with Lancaster University's Future Places Centre. She teaches on Lancaster's MA in Creative Writing and lives in the English Lake District.

Addyman, Marie
MARIE ADDYMAN is an independent scholar whose writing and teaching reflects the interdisciplinary approach which is fundamental to her practice. While guest-lecturing on English literature and women's studies at various English universities, she has taught literature, history, and history of medicine for the Open University.