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Author Armstrong, Philip, 1967- author.

Title Sheep / Philip Armstrong.

Publication Info. London : Reaktion Books Ltd, 2016.
©2016

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  599.649 ARMSTRONG    Check Shelf
Description 200 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm.
Series Animal
Animal (Reaktion Books)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-188) and index.
Contents Sheepishness -- How sheep became -- Ancient yarns -- A sheep-shaped world -- Little lamb, who made thee? -- Sheepliness.
Summary "Philip Armstrong traces the natural and cultural history of both the wild and domestic species of Ovis, from the Old World mouflon to the cannibal sheep of Thomas More's Utopia, to Dolly the cloned ewe and the sheep-human hybrids of Haruki Murakami."--Page 4 of cover.
Subject Sheep.
Sheep -- History.
Sheep -- Social aspects.
Sheep -- Symbolic aspects.
Sheep in art.
Human-animal relationships.
Animals and civilization.
Sheep. (OCoLC)fst01115460
Schaf. (DE-588)4051990-9
Kultur. (DE-588)4125698-0
ISBN 9781780235936
1780235933
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