Sacred Bull, Holy Cow : A Cultural Study of Civilization's Most Important Animal

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Pub. Date: 2006-02-01
Publisher(s): Peter Lang Pub Inc
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Summary

Original Scholarly Monograph

Author Biography

Donald K. Sharpes is Adjunct Professor of Education at Arizona State University.

Table of Contents

List of Figures ix
Abbreviations xi
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction 1(16)
The Spanish Bullfight
8(4)
Pamplona and the Running of the Bulls
12(5)
Chapter One: Taming and Domestication 17(18)
Domesticating Wild Things
17(1)
Paleolithic Cave Art and Extinct Aurochs
18(4)
Domestication Origins
22(4)
Sumer: The First Cow Culture
26(3)
The Cattle of Ancient Mesopotamia
29(1)
Babylon: Expanding the Role of the Bull
30(3)
The Reindeer Peoples: Surviving with the Herd
33(2)
Chapter Two: The Cow and Bull in Scripture 35(20)
Canaanite Civilization
40(3)
The Canaanite Ugarit Texts and Bull Cult
43(6)
Exodus: The Golden Calf
49(6)
Chapter Three: Egypt and the Cult of the Cow 55(14)
Apis the Bull God
58(4)
Hathor The Cow Goddess
62(7)
Chapter Four: Greek Bull Myths 69(12)
The Rape of Europa
71(1)
The Adventurers of Hercules
72(3)
Theseus and the Minotaur
75(2)
The Bull Cult in the Minoan Civilization in Crete
77(2)
Odysseus and His Odyssey
79(2)
Chapter Five: Roman and Medieval Bull Cults 81(16)
Virgil and Horace: Poetic Celebrations of Cattle
81(3)
Taurus: The Charging of the Bull
84(2)
Mithras, The Bull Slayer
86(7)
Medieval Bull Realities and Myths
93(1)
Erik the Leif: Bringing Cattle to the Western Hemisphere
94(3)
Chapter Six: American Bison 97(18)
Lewis and Clark and the Buffalo Dance
101(1)
Washington Irving's Buffalo Encounters
102(3)
Buffalo Roundups
105(2)
Native Land and Cattle Loss
107(2)
TC and the Buffalo Harvey Wallbanger
109(2)
Norse Cow Myths and Babe the Blue Ox
111(4)
Chapter Seven: Cattle Drives and Great Plains Grasses 115(26)
Primogeniture and Land Laws
117(5)
The Plains Truth
122(2)
The Longhorn Long March
124(7)
Financing a Boom
131(2)
Mavericks and Managers
133(8)
Chapter Eight: Colonizers and Cattle 141(14)
Kino and Kine
142(2)
Colonial Cattle
144(3)
Cattle People
147(8)
Chapter Nine: Meat and Milk 155(18)
Examining the Carcass
155(8)
Milk and Cheese: Wisconsin and the West
163(2)
The Dairy Industry
165(8)
Chapter Ten: Cattle and Unwanted Organisms 173(20)
Mad Cow Disease or BSE: From Deformity to Death
175(5)
BSE in the Third Millennium
180(2)
E. Coli Bacteria and Other Nasty Diseases
182(2)
Hoof or Foot-and-Mouth Disease
184(5)
Anthrax
189(4)
Chapter Eleven: African Cattle: Wealth and Insurance 193(14)
The Wachagga
195(1)
The Barabaig of Tanzania
196(2)
The Dassanetch of Ethiopia
198(2)
The Maasi
200(4)
The Cattle Herding Himba Tribe of Namibia
204(3)
Chapter Twelve: India, Land of the Sacred Bull and Cow 207(12)
Neolithic Cattle in India
208(1)
Hinduism: The Sanctity of the Cow
209(3)
Nandi, Shiva's Bull
212(1)
Vegetarianism
213(1)
Assisted Living for Cows
214(5)
Chapter Thirteen: Latin American Beef-Eating Culture 219(18)
The Economics of Beef Production
221(5)
An Argentinean Example
226(3)
Hoof and Mouth in South America
229(1)
Hunger, Rain Forests and Beef
230(2)
Costa Rica: Ranching and Deforestation
232(5)
Chapter Fourteen: The Asian Cow: Water Buffalo and Yak 237(12)
Uses of the Water Buffalo
238(3)
Water Buffalo in China
241(2)
Buffalo Races
243(2)
Buffalo Cloning: Until the Cows Come Home
245(1)
The Yak
245(4)
Epilogue 249(8)
Notes 257(26)
References 283(14)
Index 297

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