Michael Engelhard, Ice Bear: The Cultural History of an Arctic Icon

Authors

  • Martha Dowsley Department of Anthropology, Lakehead University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.34101

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Book review

Abstract

Michael Engelhard, Ice Bear: The Cultural History of an Arctic Icon (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2016), 304pp., 170 illus., $29.95 (pbk), ISBN: 978-0-295-99922-7.

Author Biography

  • Martha Dowsley, Department of Anthropology, Lakehead University
    Associate Professor, Cross appointed in the Department of Geography and the Environment and the Department of Anthropology. Expert in Human and Cultural Issues of Polar Bears.

References

Fréchette, B. et al. 2006. ‘Vegetation and Climate of the Last Interglacial on Baf?n Island, Arctic Canada’, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 236.1: 91-106. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.11.034.

Miller, W., et al. 2012. ‘Polar and Brown Bear Genomes Reveal Ancient Admixture and Demographic Footprints of Past Climate Change’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109.36: E2382–2390. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1210506109.

Peacock, E. et al. 2015. ‘Implication of the Circumpolar Structure of Polar Bears for Their Conservation in a Rapidly Warming Arctic’, PLOS One 10.1: e112021. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0112021.

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2018-06-07

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How to Cite

Dowsley, M. (2018). Michael Engelhard, Ice Bear: The Cultural History of an Arctic Icon. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 12(1), 107-108. https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.34101