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This book offers a comprehensive overview of the different aspects of human-animal interactions in Asia throughout history. With twelve thematically-arranged chapters, it examines the diverse roles that beasts, livestock, and fish ― real and metaphorical--have played in Asian history, society, and culture. Ranging from prehistory to the present day, the authors address a wealth of topics including the domestication of animals, dietary practices and sacrifice, hunting, the use of animals in war, and the representation of animals in literature and art. Providing a unique perspective on human interaction with the environment, this volume is cross-disciplinary in its reach, offering enriching insights to the fields of animal ethics, Asian studies, world history and more. CONTENT 1. Animals and Human Society in Asia: An Overview and Premises PART I: HUNTING AND DOMESTICATION 2. When Elephants Roamed Asia: The Significance of Proboscideans in Diet, Culture and Cosmology in Paleolithic Asia (by Ran Barkai) 3. Hunting to Herding to Trading to Warfare: A Chronology of Animal Exploitation in the Negev (by Steven A. Rosen) 4. Domestication of the Donkey (Equus asinus) in the Southern Levant: Archaeozoology, Iconography and Economy (by Ianir Milevski and Liora Kolska Horwitz) PART II: ANIMALS AS FOOD 5. Spilling Blood: Conflict and Culture over Animal Slaughter in Mongol Eurasia (by Timothy May) 6. China’s Dairy Century: Making, Drinking and Dreaming of Milk (by Thomas David DuBois) 7. Tuna as Economic Resource and Symbolic Capital in Japan’s “Imperialism of the Sea” (by Nadin Heé) PART III: ANIMALS AT WAR 8. Elephants in Mongol History: From Military Obstacles to Symbols of Buddhist Power (by William G. Clarence-Smith) 9. The Mamluk's Best Friend: The Mounts of the Military Elite of Egypt and Eurasian Steppe in the Late Middle-Ages (by Reuven Amitai and Gila Kahila Bar-Gal) 10. A Million Horses: Raising Government Horses in Early Ming China (by Noa Grass) PART IV: ANIMALS IN CULTURE AND RELIGION 11. From Lion to Tiger: The Changing Buddhist Images of Apex Predators in Trans-Asian Contexts (by Xing Zhang and Huaiyu Chen) 12. The Chinese Cult of the Horse King, Divine Protector of Equines (by Meir Shahar) 13. Animal Signs: Theriomorphic Intercession between Heaven and Imperial Mongolian History (by Brian Baumann) Contributors Bibliography Index ENDORSEMENT (BACK COVER) "Animal studies is a vibrant field that renews humanities by breaking many barriers. This intense and beautiful volume exemplifies such breaking and renewing, as it connects Far-eastern and Near-eastern areas and the steppe world in between, and develops an engaged dialogue between archeology, history, religion, visual studies, economics, law, and more." ―Vincent Goossaert, Professor of Daoism and Chinese religions, EPHE, PSL, Paris "An ambitious volume, as broad, diverse, and interconnected as Asia. A significant interdisciplinary contribution to the history of human-animal relations." ―Aaron Skabelund, Associate Professor of History, Brigham Young University, USA, author of Empire of Dogs: Canines, Japan, and the Making of the Modern Imperial World PALGRAVE MACMILLAN https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-24363-0#toc AMAZON https://www.amazon.com/Animals-Human-Society-Asia-Perspectives/dp/3030243621/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=animals+and+human+society+in+asia&link_code=qs&qid=1564222263&s=gateway&sourceid=Mozilla-search&sr=8-1

Focusing on the writings of Emmanuel Levinas, the dissertation examines Levinas’s understanding of time as inter-subjective. A discussion of Levinas’s interpretation of time is needed since he does not provide a systematic theory of the subject, and his views are scattered throughout his works. The thesis explored and defended in the dissertation is that even though we find in different periods of Levinas’s writings apparently inconsistent views of time, a coherent and consistent structure of time can be extracted from his thought. Examining Levinas’s views against the background of two of his most influential predecessors, Henri Bergson and Martin Heidegger, leads to conclusions not only concerning the nature of Levinas’s understanding of time, evolutionary rather than contradictory, but also concerning Levinas's unique views concerning the relation between time and ethics. Levinas presents an innovative interpretation of time, which can be considered as an attempt to overcome the dissatisfaction with the egological interpretations offered by Bergson and Heidegger. Levinas accepts the relevance of time to the human structure of existence, but at the same time does not consider the time pertinent to our existence among other people as a degradation of inner-time. Since Levinasian time occurs in the framework of inter-subjective relations, it has an ethical meaning, which is manifested in the relation between responsibility and time, as well as in the relation between time and the formation of the self.

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Our goal in this chapter is to assist graduate student instructors and new faculty in sifting through various books and Web sites in order to help them develop a strong foundation for effective pedagogy and to prevent them from having to reinvent the wheel through trial and error. As members of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology’s Graduate Student Teaching Association (GSTA), we are well-versed in the trials and tribulations of teaching for the first time. In this chapter, we have organized especially helpful books and Web sites that may assist new instructors in course design and assessment as well as the utilization of research on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). Our selections also address topics such as activity-based instruction, Internet-enhanced teaching, development of undergraduate writing skills, management of diverse classes, and methods of inspiring students through service and community involvement. We encourage readers to use our chapter to select the resources that are most relevant to their needs. We hope that these resources will arm the new professoriate with strategies to confidently challenge, redefine, and manage the 21st century undergraduate classroom.