Reviews for Waiting for Wolves in Japan: An Anthropological Study of People-Wildlife Relations

The average rating for Waiting for Wolves in Japan: An Anthropological Study of People-Wildlife Relations based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-03-29 00:00:00 Asim Matin What a FANTASTIC book! It's not just about wolves. There are chapters for different kinds of wildlife that people in rural Japan encounter on an increasingly frequent and problematic basis. The importance of culture is often overlooked in what we tend to think of (or are forced to justify) as more ecologically based conservation decisions. I am a grad student, writing my thesis on the topic of ethnoprimatology and this book was immensely valuable!

Review # 2 was written on 2018-03-04 00:00:00 Catherine Verma >>TRIGGER WARNINGS: Animal abuse. The Pig Who Sang to the Moon is a beautiful testament to the lives of the voiceless millions of farmed animals who are cruelly hurt and killed every day. I think it is the most important book I have ever read. Someone should speak up for the animals, and I admire Jeffery Moussaieff Masson for being the one to do it. "Why is it generally considered ridiculous to point out that every one of those animals had a mother, almost all had siblings, and surely some were mourned by a parent or missed by a friend? Even though they were bred to be killed, their emotional capacities were not altered by such breeding. They had memories, they suffered, and they grieved. There is little justification for making a comparative scale of suffering where 'human' is weighted and animal is given little weight. To be concerned about one kind of suffering does not mean that you must have no interest in another, or that you think that one is somehow more important or more terrible than another."