Humans and other animals : cross-cultural perspectives on human-animal interactions /

Humans and other animals : cross-cultural perspectives on human-animal interactions /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Hurn, Samantha, author.
Imprint:	London : Pluto Press ; New York : Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Description:	1 online resource (vi, 266 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Anthropology, culture, and society Anthropology, culture, and society.
Subject:	Human-animal relationships. Animal welfare -- Moral and ethical aspects. Animals and civilization. Human ecology. Animal welfare -- Moral and ethical aspects. Animals and civilization. Human-animal relationships. Human ecology. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11140270

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ISBN:	9781849647250 1849647259 9781849647267 1849647267 9780745331195 9780745331201 0745331203 074533119X
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-249) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"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.
Other form:	Print version: Hurn, Samantha. Humans and other animals. London : Pluto Press, 2012 9780745331195

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.