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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814244203321

Autore

Urbanik Julie <1971->

Titolo

Placing animals : an introduction to the geography of human-animal relations / / Julie Urbanik

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield, c2012

ISBN

1-283-52395-7

9786613836403

1-4422-1186-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 p.)

Collana

Human geography in the twenty-first century

Disciplina

591.9

Soggetti

Zoogeography

Human-animal relationships

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Ch01. Geography and Human-Animal Relations; Ch02. A History of Animal Geography; Ch03. Geographies of More-than-Human Homes and Cultures; Ch04. Beasts of Burden: Geographies of Working Animals; Ch05. Down on the Farm: Geographies of Animal Parts; Ch06. Into the Wild: Geographies of Human-Wildlife Relations; Ch07. Conclusion: The Place of Geography in Human-Animal Studies; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Placing Animals is the first book to survey the ways in which animals have been studied in geography. It includes both a historical overview of the development of animal geography and an assessment of the field today. Through the theme of the role of place in shaping where and why human-animal interactions occur, the chapters in turn explore the history of animal geography and our distinctive relationships in the home, on farms, in the context of labor, in the wider culture, and in the wild.