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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hurn, Samantha.

Series:

Anthropology, culture, and society.

Anthropology, culture, and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-animal relationships.

Animals--Psychological aspects.

Animals.

Animals and civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Cross-cultural perspectives on human-animal interactions

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

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:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-84964-725-9

OCLC:

804851752