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Ice Bear: The Cultural History of an Arctic Icon

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 | #384498 in Books |  2016-10-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.90 x.80 x8.10l,.0 | File type: PDF | 304 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Entertaining, scholarly, wide-ranging, thoroughly researched|By Rich Wilkins|This is an entertaining, well-written, and lavishly illustrated book, but, make no mistake, it’s not a light summer read. In fact, it's a scholarly, wide-ranging, thoroughly researched, and well-documented treatise on its subject. The author has put his training in cultural anthropology to good| ||Engelhard’s thought-provoking iconography explores in depth the multitude of cultural roles played by the polar bear.  — David Fox, Anchorage Press

Essayist and wilderness guide Engelhard examines the int

Prime Arctic predator and nomad of the sea ice and tundra, the polar bear endures as a source of wonder, terror, and fascination. Humans have seen it as spirit guide and fanged enemy, as trade good and moral metaphor, as food source and symbol of ecological crisis. Eight thousand years of artifacts attest to its charisma, and to the fraught relationships between our two species. In the White Bear, we acknowledge the magic of wildness: it is both genuinely itself and a sc...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Ice Bear: The Cultural History of an Arctic Icon   |  Michael Engelhard. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.

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