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The Suez Canal's Effect on the Malayan Tiger
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on March 2, 2017 (go to class or lectures)
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ritual, food, slaughter, palm, masculinity, hinterlands, boar, export, feline, Comanche, ambush, single, Americas, Mamak, 1860s, Bali, Suez, Europeans, savagery, 7th, deer, eat
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Malay
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how the transformation of agrarian                        upsets and changes the lives and livelihoods of a sedentary peasantry
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tigers had been the subject of important              hunts
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tigers have been for centuries a sacred animal for the Malayan
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an icon of noble                 
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the gods would often take on great              features
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hunting was a ritual event
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for men to display their                       
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the traditional hunt was the chasing down of the great cat
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it was a hunt, not a                   
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humans coexisted with the tiger
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depended on them
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their real pest was the wild         
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the tiger kept the number of wild boars down
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similar to                  and Buffalo
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the threat to the tiger came from land
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boar and          would roam, eat plants
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became prey for tigers
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this was the land that                    wanted to use for crops
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this would eliminate the          source of tigers
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tigers consume large amounts of food
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stock and              predators
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rely on element of surprise
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don't        their prey in one meal
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needs many deer and boar to keep a tiger alive
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tiger needed much land
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           tipping point
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the opening of the          Canal
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now Europeans could treat the frontiers in Southeast Asia in the same way as in the                 
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Sumatra
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           tribespeople
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clearing Sumatra for
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         oil plantations
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rice paddies
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sugar
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coffee
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1913, Indonesia the        largest producer of coffee in the world
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the agriculture took on an             -led grown model
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            -crop plantations
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the end to diversified agriculture
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those that lost in this transformation
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village tribes people
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Malayan tigers
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wiped out from         
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rare in Java and Sumatra
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