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Cow

From the milk we drink in the morning to the leather shoes we slip on for the day, to the steak we savour at dinner, our daily lives are thoroughly bound up with the cow. The author explores the complex story behind this seemingly benign creature, plumbing the rich trove of myth, fact and legend surrounding the cow, bull and ox.
Print Book, English, 2007
Reaktion Books, London, 2007
Pregrado
208 páginas : ilustraciones ; 19 cm.
9781861893260, 1861893264
1011548480
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