List of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Foreword: The Bear: A Cultural and Natural Heritage - Barrie K. Gilbert Introduction: What is a Bear? - Owen T. Nevin, Ian Convery, Peter Davis, John Kitchin and Melanie Clapham BEAR-PEOPLE INTERACTIONS The Spirit Bear - Philip Charles Out of the Wild Wood and into our Beds: The Evolutionary History of Teddy Bears and the Natural Selection of Deadly Cuteness - Mike Jeffries Bears within the Human Landscape: Cultural and Demographic Factors Influencing the Use of Bear Parts in Cambodia and Laos - Elizabeth O Davis and Jenny Anne Glikman Bears in Gay Culture: Histories, Discourses and Anthropomorphism - Gareth Longstaff Bears, Wildmen, Yeti and Sasquatch - Jeff Meldrum Bears in Children's Literature - Tracy Hayes, Heather Prince and Ian Convery Knowing Individual Bears - Owen T. Nevin, Ian Convery and John Kitchin BEARS IN THE PUBLIC GAZE Bears Behind Bars: Captive Bears Throughout History - Koen Cuyten and Ian Convery The Bear in the Museum - Peter Davis Museum Polar Bears and Climate Change - Henry McGhie On the Oblique Imperative: What Revealing Conceals and Concealing may Reveal - Mark Wilson and Bryndis Snæbjörnsdóttir Visitations: The Social and Cultural History of Polar Bear Narratives in Iceland and the North Atlantic - Kristinn Schram and Jón Jónsson BEAR BIOLOGY, MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATION Chemical Signalling in Brown Bears - Melanie Clapham, Owen T. Nevin and Ian Convery Reducing Uncertainty in Bear Management - Sarah Elmeligi, Owen T. Nevin and Ian Convery Living with Bears in Europe - Miha Krofel Citizen Science and Bears - Sarah Elmeligi, Owen T. Nevin and Ian Convery Understanding Local Folklore and Attitudes in Apennine Brown Bear Conservation - Jenny Anne Glikman and Beatrice Frank Reducing Human Impacts on Andean Bears in NW Peru Through Community-based Conservation - Samantha A Young, Russell C Van Horn and Jenny Anne Glikman Afterword: 'It's Me Bear': Reflections on a Unique Career Working with Bears - Lynn Rogers List of Contributors Index Previous titles

The Bear: Culture, Nature, Heritage