Herding Monkeys to Paradise

Sixteen monkey parks in Japan, established in the 1950s, are a popular way for tourists to see and get up close to free-ranging troops of Japanese macaques. Knight (social anthropology and human-animal studies, Queen's U., Belfast, Ireland) offers a detailed study of the management and uses of these parks--for animal display, for scientific studies--and the representation of these parks as a paradise-like environment allowing interaction of humans with wild animals. Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)