Humans and other animals : cross-cultural perspectives on human-animal interactions / Samantha Hurn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hurn, Samantha.

Series:

Anthropology, culture, and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-animal relationships.

Animal welfare--Moral and ethical aspects.

Animal welfare.

Animals and civilization.

Human ecology.

Physical Description:

vi, 266 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press ; New York : distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Why look at human-animal interactions?

Animality

Continuity

The west and the rest

Domestication

Good to think

Food

Pets

Communication

Intersubjectivity

Humans and other primates

Science and medicine

Conservation

Hunting and blood sports

Animal rights and wrongs

From anthropocentricity to multi-species ethnography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-249) and index.

ISBN:

9780745331195

9780745331201

0745331203

074533119X

OCLC:

721883997

Publisher Number:

99948647757