Humans and other animals [electronic resource] : cross-cultural perspectives on human-animal interactions / Samantha Hurn.

ISBN:

9781849647250

Title:

Author:

Hurn, Samantha.

Personal Author:

Hurn, Samantha.

Publication Information:

London : Pluto Press ; New York : Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 266 pages).

Series:

Anthropology, culture, and society

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.

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Subject Term:

Human-animal relationships.

Animal welfare -- Moral and ethical aspects.

Animals and civilization.

Human ecology.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2012

Publication Information:

London : Pluto Press ; New York : Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

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Summary

What are our attitudes towards other animals, and how does this affect our humanity?

This work of anthrozoology explores 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.

This book looks at case studies covering blood sports (such as hunting, fishing and bull fighting), pet keeping and 'petishism', eco-tourism and wildlife conservation, working animals and animals as food. It addresses the idea of animal exploitation raised by the animal rights movements, 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.