ISBN:
074533119X
,
0745331203
,
9780745331195
,
9780745331201
,
9781849647250
Language:
English
Pages:
vi, 266 p
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Anthropology, culture, and society
Parallel Title:
Print version Humans and other animals
DDC:
304.27
Keywords:
Animals and civilization
;
Human-animal relationships
;
Animals Psychological aspects
;
Electronic books
;
Mensch
;
Tiere
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
"Humans and Other Animals is about the myriad and evolving ways in which humans and animals interact, the divergent cultural constructions of humanity and animality found around the world, and individual experiences of other animals. Samantha Hurn explores the work of anthropologists and scholars from related disciplines concerned with the growing field of anthrozoology. Case studies from a wide range of cultural contexts are discussed, and readers are invited to engage with a diverse range of human-animal interactions including blood sports (such as hunting, fishing and bull fighting), pet keeping and 'petishism', eco-tourism and wildlife conservation, working animals and animals as food. The idea of animal exploitation raised by the animal rights movements is considered, as well as the anthropological implications of changing attitudes towards animal personhood, and the rise of a posthumanist philosophy in the social sciences more generally. Key debates surrounding these issues are raised and assessed and, in the process, readers are encouraged to consider their own attitudes towards other animals and, by extension, what it means to be human."--Publisher's website
Description / Table of Contents:
Why look at human-animal interactions?Animality -- Continuity -- The west and the rest -- Domestication -- Good to think -- Food -- Pets -- Communication --Intersubjectivity -- Humans and other primates -- Science and medicine -- Conservation -- Hunting and blood sports -- Animal rights and wrongs -- From anthropocentricity to multi-species ethnography.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Available via World Wide Web
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