Humans and other animals [[electronic resource] ] : cross-cultural perspectives on human-animal interactions / / Samantha Hurn

• Autore: Hurn Samantha
• Pubblicazione: London, : Pluto Press; New York, : Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (266 p.)
• Disciplina: 304.2
• Soggetto topico: Human-animal relationships; Animals - Psychological aspects; Animals and civilization
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- Series Preface -- 1. Why Look at Human-Animal Interactions? -- 2. Animality -- 3. Continuity -- 4. The West and the Rest -- 5. Domestication -- 6. Good to Think -- 7. Food -- 8. Pets -- 9. Communication -- 10. Intersubjectivity -- 11. Humans and Other Primates -- 12. Science and Medicine -- 13. Conservation -- 14. Hunting and Blood Sports -- 15. Animal Rights and Wrongs -- 16. From Anthropocentricity to Multi-species Ethnography -- References -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Humans and Other Animals is about the myriad and evolving ways in which humans and animals interact, the divergent cultural constructions of humanity and animality found around the world, and individual experiences of other animals. Samantha Hurn explores the work of anthropologists and scholars from related disciplines concerned with the growing field of anthrozoology. Case studies from a wide range of cultural contexts are discussed, and readers are invited to engage with a diverse range of human-animal interactions including blood sports (such as hunting, fishing and bull fighting), pet keeping and 'petishism', eco-tourism and wildlife conservation, working animals and animals as food. The idea of animal exploitation raised by the animal rights movements is considered, as well as the anthropological implications of changing attitudes towards animal personhood, and the rise of a posthumanist philosophy in the social sciences more generally. Key debates surrounding these issues are raised and assessed and, in the process, readers are encouraged to consider their own attitudes towards other animals and, by extension, what it means to be human."--Publisher's website.
• Altri titoli varianti: Cross-cultural perspectives on human-animal interactions
• Titolo autorizzato: Humans and other animals
• ISBN: 1-84964-725-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779139103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Anthropology, culture, and society.