Paul Waldau

Animal Studies (eBook, ePUB)

An Introduction

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Animal studies is a growing interdisciplinary field that incorporates scholarship from public policy, sociology, religion, philosophy, and many other areas. In essence, it seeks to understand how humans study and conceive of other-than-human animals, and how these conceptions have changed over time, across cultures, and across different ways of thinking. This interdisciplinary introduction to the field boldly and creatively foregrounds the realities of nonhuman animals, as well as the imaginative and ethical faculties that humans must engage to consider our intersection with living beings outside of our species. It also compellingly demonstrates that the breadth and depth of thinking and humility needed to grasp the human-nonhuman intersection has the potential to expand the dualism that currently divides the sciences and humanities. As the first holistic survey of the field, Animal Studies is essential reading for any student of human-animal relationships and for all people who care about the role nonhuman animals play in our society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199968404
• Artikelnr.: 38177390

Autorenporträt

Paul Waldau is Associate Professor of Anthrozoology and Animal Behavior, Ecology and Conservation at Canisius College and since 2002 has taught the Animal Law course at Harvard Law School.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Chapter 1. Opening Doors: Four General Issues, Four Basic Tasks
* Chapter 2. Through Open Doors: The Challenges of History, Culture and
Education
* Chapter 3. Science, Politics and Other Animals
* Chapter 4. Early Twenty-First Century Animal Studies: Three Cutting
Edges
* Chapter 5. Animals in the Creative Arts
* Chapter 6. Animals in Philosophy
* Chapter 7. Comparative Studies: Legal Systems, Religions and Cultures
* Chapter 8. Animals and Modern Social Realities
* Chapter 9. The Special Roles of Anthropology, Archeology and
Geography
* Chapter 10. Telling the Larger Story
* Chapter 11. Marginalized Humans and Other Animals
* Chapter 12. The Question of Leadership: Getting Beyond Pioneers and
Leaders to Individual Choices
* Chapter 13. The Future of Animal Studies
* Conclusion