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1 online resource ( xiv, 251 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Foreword : The bear : a cultural and natural heritage / Barrie K. Gilbert -- Introduction : What is a bear? / Owen T. Nevin [and 4 others] -- Bear-people interactions. The spirit bear / Philip Charles -- Out of the wild wood and into our beds : the evolutionary history of teddy bears and the natural selection of deadly cuteness / Mike Jeffries -- Bears within the human landscape : cultural and demographic factors influencing the use of bear parts in Cambodia and Laos / Elizabeth O Davis and Jenny Anne glikman -- Bears in gay culture : histories, discourses and anthropomorphism / Gareth Langstaff -- Bears, wildmen, yeti and sasquatch / Jeff Meldrum -- Bears in children's literature / Tracy Hayes, Heather Prince and Ian Convery -- Knowing individual bears / Owen T. Nevin, Ian Convery and John Kitchin -- Bears in the public gaze. Bears behind bars : captive bears throughout history / Koen Cuyten and Ian Convery -- The bear in the museum / Peter Davis -- Museum polar bears and climate change / Henry McGhie -- On the oblique imperative : what revealing conceals and concealing may reveal / Mark Wilson and Bryndis Snæbjörnsdóttir -- Visitations : the social and cultural history of polar bear narratives in Iceland and the North Atlantic / Kristinn Schram and Jón Jónsson -- Bear biology, management and conservation. Chemical signalling in brown bears / Melanie Clapham, Owen T. Nevin and Ian Convery -- Reducing uncertainty in bear management / Sarah Elmeligi, Owen T. Nevin and Ian Convery -- Living with bears in Europe / Miha Krofel -- Citizen science and bears / Sarah Elmeligi, Owen T. Nevin and Ian Convery -- Understanding local folklore and attitudes in appennine brown bear conservation / Jenny Anne Glikman and Beatrice Frank -- Reducing human impacts on Andean bears in NW Peru through community-based conservation / Samantha A. Young, Russell C Van Horn and Jenny Anne Glikman -- Afterword : 'It's me bear' : reflections on a unique career working with bears / Lynn Rogers.
edited by Owen Nevin, Ian Convery and Peter Davis.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Owen Nevin is Associate Vice-Chancellor, Gladstone Region, CQ University, Australia; Ian Convery is Professor of Environment and Society at the University of Cumbria; Peter Davis is Emeritus Professor of Museology in the International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies at Newcastle University.
Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY, USA : The Boydell Press, [2019]