Emily Stone

Cat People: Human-Cat Interrelatedness in the Cat Fancy (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Based on multispecies ethnographic fieldwork and interviews in the UK, this book explores the social world of the cat fancy, or the leisure activity of breeding and exhibiting pedigree cats, with attention to the relations that breeding and showing practices generate between human guardians, and both pedigree and non-pedigree cats.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000756012
• Artikelnr.: 64998118

Autorenporträt

Emily Stone is a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Exeter Anthrozoology as Symbiotic Ethics (EASE) Working Group at the University of Exeter, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. From Mouser to the Catwalk: The Journey of the Domestic Cat 2. On the
Catwalk: Champion Cats 3. Learning to Look at Cats: Enskilment, Aesthetics
and Feline Agency 4. Shaping Cats: Breeding, Eugenics and Biopower 5. Cat
Fancy Sociality: The Serious Leisure of Exhibiting Cats 6. Love is
Complicated: Cat Care Compromises and Relational Entanglements with Harm 7.
A Dying Breed: The Perceived Decline of the Cat Fancy 8. Conclusions: The
Co-Becoming of Cat People