Cow

• Main Author: Velten, Hannah.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London : Reaktion Books, 2007.
• Series: Animal (Reaktion Books)
• Subjects: Cattle.; Cattle > History.; Animals and civilization.; Human-animal relationships.; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Animal Husbandry. > Agriculture; Electronic books.
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Hannah Velten plumbs the rich trove of myth, fact, and legend surrounding the seemingly-benign cow.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: reintroducing the cow, bull and ox
• Wild ox to domesticates
• Bull-gods, Bull-kings
• Cow mysticism and a rural idyll
• Toiling the fields and a 'cattle complex'
• Cattle stars and romantic associations
• Poor cow: pushing the boundaries
• Epilogue: out of sight, out of mind?
• Timeline of the cow.