Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-ix

Acknowledgments

pp x-x

List of Abbreviations

pp xi-xi

Foreword: The Bear: A Cultural and Natural Heritage

pp xii-xiv

Introduction: What is a Bear?

pp 1-10

Bear-People Interactions

pp 11-12

1 - The Spirit Bear

pp 13-22

2 - Out of the Wild Wood and into our Beds: The Evolutionary History of Teddy Bears and the Natural Selection of Deadly Cuteness

pp 23-32

3 - Bears within the Human Landscape: Cultural and Demographic Factors Influencing the Use of Bear Parts in Cambodia and Laos

pp 33-44

4 - Bears in Gay Culture: Histories, Discourses and Anthropomorphism

pp 45-54

5 - Bears, Wildmen, Yeti and Sasquatch

pp 55-66

6 - Bears in Children's Literature

pp 67-76

7 - Knowing Individual Bears

pp 77-90

Bears in the Public Gaze

pp 91-92

8 - Bears Behind Bars: Captive Bears Throughout History

pp 93-106

9 - The Bear in the Museum

pp 107-118

10 - Museum Polar Bears and Climate Change

pp 119-130

11 - On the Oblique Imperative: What Revealing Conceals and Concealing may Reveal

pp 131-146

12 - Visitations: The Social and Cultural History of Polar Bear Narratives in Iceland and the North Atlantic

pp 147-160

Bear Biology, Management and Conservation

pp 161-162

13 - Chemical Signalling in Brown Bears

pp 163-176

14 - Reducing Uncertainty in Bear Management

pp 177-186

15 - Living with Bears in Europe

pp 187-198

16 - Citizen Science and Bears

pp 199-210

17 - Understanding Local Folklore and Attitudes in Apennine Brown Bear Conservation

pp 211-220

18 - Reducing Human Impacts on Andean Bears in NW Peru Through Community-based Conservation

pp 221-232

Afterword: “It's Me Bear”: Reflections on a Unique Career Working with Bears

pp 233-240

List of Contributors

pp 241-246