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UNINA9910456715503321 |
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Autore |
Alger Janet M. <1937-> |
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Titolo |
Cat culture [[electronic resource] ] : the social world of a cat shelter / / Janet M. Alger, Steven F. Alger |
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Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2003 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Collana |
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Animals, culture, and society |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Cats - Behavior |
Cats - Social aspects |
Animal shelters |
Human-animal relationships |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; Preface: Why an Ethnography of a Shelter?; Acknowledgments; 1. The Myth of the Solitary Cat; 2. The World of Whiskers; 3. The Human-Cat Connection; 4. The Social Bonds among the Cats; 5. The Feral Cats and Shelter Solidarity; 6. Leaving the Shelter Community; 7. Culture and Self in the Domestic Cat; 8. Animals in the Future of Sociology; Afterword; Notes; References; Index |
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Even people who live with cats and have good reason to know better insist that cats are aloof and uninterested in relating to humans. Janet and Steven Alger contend that the anti-social cat is a myth; cats form close bonds with humans and with each other. In the potentially chaotic environment of a shelter that houses dozens of uncaged cats, they reveal a sense of self and build a culture-a shared set of rules, roles, and expectations that organizes their world and assimilates newcomers.As volunteers in a local cat shelter for eleven years, the Algers came to realize that despite the frequency |
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UNINA9910969997503321 |
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Titolo |
Jewish studies between the disciplines : Judaistik zwischen den Disziplinen : papers in honor of Peter Schafer on the occasion of his 60th birthday / / edited by Klaus Herrmann, Margarete Schluter, Giuseppe Veltri |
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Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2003 |
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1-280-46517-4 |
9786610465170 |
1-4237-1185-8 |
90-474-0275-8 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (526 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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SchäferPeter <1943-> |
HerrmannKlaus |
SchlüterMargarete |
VeltriGiuseppe |
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Disciplina |
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Judaism - History |
Rabbinical literature - History and criticism |
Mysticism - Judaism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"ISSN 1570-1522"--T.p. verso. |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Preface; Tabula gratulatoria; List of Contributors; CONTENTS; I RABBINIC JUDAISM; II EARLY JEWISH MYSTICISM AND MAGIC; III MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN JUDAISM; IV MODERN JUDAISM; Index of References; Index of Modern Authors |
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Peter Schäfer who celebrated his 60th birthday on 29 June 2003 has left a decidedly firm imprint on the young discipline "Jewish Studies" in Germany, which could only be set up at a German university after the Shoah. For someone directing a "small" academic institution he has managed during his academic career to guide and influence a strikingly large number of students in their scholarly pursuits in the field. The collected essays of this volume encompass quite a variety of topics, whereby the focal points in Peter Schäfer's own research are not |
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difficult to recognize in the themes chosen by his former students: mysticism and magic are most conspicuous, followed by Rabbinic Judaism and the studies on the Middle Ages and the Early Modern and Modern Periods. Of note is also the fact that the methodological approaches of these contributions are no less manifold than their themes. Part of the contributions of this book were submitted in English, and all the German-language texts have an English summary or abstract. |
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