Human-Animal Relations and the Hunt in Korea and Northeast Asia (hereafter The Hunt in Korea) introduces the "animal turn" to Korean studies, examining how political elites in early modern Korea constructed competing discourses on hunting and nonhuman animals between the mid-13th and early-16th centuries.Kallander argues that changing ideas and norms about proper human-animal relations shaped the nature of kingship and governance.Readers should note that The Hunt in Korea is based on an implicit dualism: the authority of kings vs. that of literati bureaucrats; the martial vs. the sage; and the nomadic and Eurasian vs. the neo-Confucian and China-centric traditions.The former embraced the interactions with animals in the wilderness and sought to legitimize various types of hunting, while the latter opposed such multispecies encounters, regarding them as reflective of barbarity, or animality, and preferred to remain within the boundaries of civilization.Kallander traces how the former prevailed during the late Koryo and early Choso n era under Mongol Yuan influence, before being gradually overwhelmed by the latter during the consolidation of the Choso n dynasty.Chapter 1 sets the stage by describing the features of the mountainous environment of the Korean peninsula and its nonhuman inhabitants.The next chapter outlines the hunt during the early and mid-Koryo period.The founder, Wang Ko n (877-943), and the early kings of the dynasty valued martial charisma and endorsed hunting, but the royal chase waned from the 10th to early 13th centuries due to Buddhism's influence and 87