Living with animals : bonds across species / edited by Natalie Porter and Ilana Gershon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Porter, Natalie (Natalie H.), editor.

Gershon, Ilana, editor.

Standardized Title:

Living with animals (Cornell University Press)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-animal relationships.

Animals and civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Bonds across species

Place of Publication:

Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Living with Animals is a collection of imagined animal guides-a playful and accessible look at different human-animal relationships around the world. Anthropologists and their co-authors have written accounts of how humans and animals interact in labs, in farms, in zoos, and in African forests, among other places. Modeled after the classic A World of Babies, an edited collection of imagined Dr. Spock manuals from around the world-With Animals focuses on human-animal relationships in their myriad forms.This is ethnographic fiction for those curious about how animals are used for a variety of different tasks around the world. To be sure, animal guides are not a universal genre, so Living with Animals offers an imaginative solution, doing justice to the ways details about animals are conveyed in culturally specific ways by adopting a range of voices and perspectives. How we capitalize on animals, how we live with them, and how humans attempt to control the untamable nature around them are all considered by the authors of this wild read.If you have ever experienced a moment of "what if" curiosity-what is it like to be a gorilla in a zoo, to work in a pig factory farm, to breed cows and horses, this book is for you. A light-handed and light-hearted approach to a fascinating and nuanced subject, Living with Animals suggests many ways in which we can and do coexist with our non-human partners on Earth.

Contents:

Yuendumu dog tales / Yasmine Musharbash

How to build rapport with animals / Alex Nading

The perils of deference : how not to habituate spotted hyenas in an Ethiopian town / Marcus Baynes-Rock

How to study chimpanzees that are terrified of you : adventures in ethnoprimatology in West Africa / Andrew Halloran and Cat Bolten

Walking with dogs : sharing meaning, sensation, and inspiration across the species boundary / Agustín Fuentes and Michael Alan Park

Working with a service dog in the United States / Leslie Irvine and Sherri Sasnett-Martichuski

How to protect yourself from the dead with cattle / Genese Sodikoff

How to release viruses from birds : a field guide for virus hunters, Buddhist monks and bird watchers / Frédéric Keck

Oysterous / Eva Hayward

How to act industrial around industrial pigs / Alex Blanchette

Making babies with cows / Scout Calvert

How to make a horse have an orgasm / Jeannette Vaught

Healing with leeches / Robert G.W. Kirk

How to be a systematist / Aleta Quinn

Becoming a research rodent / Nicole Nelson and Kaitlin Stack Whitney

The business : a ferret's guide of the lab life / Heather Altfeld with Lesley A. Sharp

Read, respond, rescue / Natalie Porter

How to save a park with birds : birdwatchers' ecologies in Buenos Aires

Nicholas D'Avella

Howdy! Introducing zoo gorillas / Christena Nippert-Eng.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501724848

1501724843

9781501724831

1501724835

OCLC:

1022978261