Animals in Person

Cultural Perspectives on Human-Animal Intimacies
Herausgeber: Knight, John

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Produktbeschreibung

Our relationship with animals is complex and contradictory; we hunt, kill and eat them, yet we also love, respect and protect them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9781859737330
• ISBN-10: 1859737331
• Artikelnr.: 21316288

Autorenporträt

John Knight is Lecturer, Queen's University of Belfast

Inhaltsangabe

IntroductionJohn Knight1. Care, Order and Usefulness: The Context of the
Human-Animal Relationship in a Greek Island CommunityDimitrios
Theodossopoulos2. Person, Place or Pig: Animal Attachments and Human
Transactions in New Guinea.Peter D. Dwyer and Monica Minnegal 3.
Disciplined Affections: The Making of an English Pack of FoxhoundsGarry
Marvin 4. On 'Loving Your Water-Buffalo More Than Your Own Mother':
Relationships of Animal and Human Care in NepalBen Campbell 5. Loved to
Death? Veterinary Visions of Pet-keeping in Modern Dutch SocietyJoanna
Swabe 6. From Trap to Lap: The Changing Sociogenic Identity of the
RatBirgitta Edelman 7. The Unbearable Likeness of Being: Children,
Teddy-bears and The Sooty ShowCandi Forrest, L. Goldman and M. Emmison 8.
The Elephant-Mahout Relationship in India and Nepal: A Tourist
AttractionLynette A. Hart9. Loving Leviathan: The Discourse of Whale
Watching in Australian EcotourismAdrian Peace 10. Enchanting Dolphins: An
Analysis of Human-Dolphin EncountersVronique Servais 11. Feeding Mr Monkey:
Cross-species Food 'Exchange' in Japanese Monkey ParksJohn Knight12.
Anthropomorphism or Egomorphism? The Perception of Non-human Persons by
Human OnesKay Milton