This is the first book to provide a systematic overview of social zooarchaeology, arguing that animals have always played a range of roles in human societies: as wealth, companions, spirit helpers, sacrificial victims, totems, centerpieces of feasts, objects of taboos, and more.
This is the first book to provide a systematic overview of social zooarchaeology, arguing that animals have always played a range of roles in human societies: as wealth, companions, spirit helpers, sacrificial victims, totems, centerpieces of feasts, objects of taboos, and more.
Nerissa Russell is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at Cornell University. Her research focuses on the full range of human-animal relations, with particular emphasis on the social and symbolic roles of animals for ancient people. She has published more than forty book chapters and articles in journals including Antiquity, Paleorient and the Journal of Archaeological Science.
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1. Beyond protein and calories 2. Animal symbols 3. Animals in ritual 4. Hunting and humanity 5. Extinctions 6. Domestication as human-animal relationship 7. Pets and other human-animal relationships 8. Animal wealth 9. Meat beyond diet 10. Studying human-animal relations.
