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Companion Animals in Everyday Life : Situating Human-Animal Engagement within Cultures / edited by Michał Piotr Pręgowski

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

Online-Ressource (XXVII, 313 p. 8 illus., 2 illus. in color, online resource)

Englisch

978-1-137-59572-0

978-1-137-59571-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 962079459 (aus SWB)     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang beim Produzenten (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1057/978-1-137-59572-0

HM545

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bicssc: JHM ; bisacsh: SOC002000

LOC-SH: Social sciences ; Social Sciences ; Anthropology

This book is an interdisciplinary collection shedding light on human-animal relationships and interactions around the world. The book offers a predominantly empirical look at social and cultural practices related to companion animals in Mexico, Poland, the Netherlands, Japan, China and Taiwan, Vietnam, USA, and Turkey among others. It focuses on how dogs, cats, rabbits and members of other species are perceived and treated in various cultures, highlighting commonalities and differences between them

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This book is an interdisciplinary collection shedding light on human-animal relationships and interactions around the world. The book offers a predominantly empirical look at social and cultural practices related to companion animals in Mexico, Poland, the Netherlands, Japan, China and Taiwan, Vietnam, USA, and Turkey among others. It focuses on how dogs, cats, rabbits and members of other species are perceived and treated in various cultures, highlighting commonalities and differences between them. Micha? Piotr Pr?gowski is Assistant Professor at the Warsaw University of Technology, Poland. He is a sociologist and a Fulbright alumnus whose research projects include social construction of dogs in the contemporary West, especially their naming and training, as well as social practices of commemorating companion animals. Pr?gowski's recent books include Pies te? cz?owiek? Relacje psów i ludzi we wspó?czesnej Polsce (2014), an edited volume on humans and canines in contemporary Poland, as well as Free Market Dogs: The Human-Canine Bond in Post-Communist Poland (2016).