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Animals and Society - An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies

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Human-animal studies is an interdisciplinary field that explores the spaces that animals occupy in human social and cultural worlds. Margo DeMello provides a broad overview of this rapidly growing field. This second edition is fully updated and expanded throughout, enhancing the book's relevance for student and activist readers alike.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Constructing Animals: Animal Categories
1. Human-Animal Studies
2. Animal-Human Borders
3. The Social Construction of Animals
Part II: Using Animals: Human-Animal Economies
4. Animals “in the Wild” and in Human Societies
5. The Domestication of Animals
6. Display, Performance, and Sport
7. The Making and Consumption of Meat
8. The Pet Animal
9. Animals and Science
10. Animal-Assisted Activities
Part III: Attitudes Toward Animals
11. Working with Animals
12. Violence to Animals
13. Human Oppression and Animal Suffering
Part IV: Imagining Animals: Animals in Human Thought
14. Animals in Symbol and Art
15. Animals in Religion and Folklore
16. Animals in Literature and Film
Part V: Knowing and Relating to Animals: Animal Behavior and Animal Ethics
17. Animal Behavior Studies and Ethology
18. The Moral Status of Animals
19. The Animal Protection Movement
20. The Future of the Human-Animal Relationship
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Margo DeMello is assistant professor in the anthrozoology program at Carroll College. She directed the human-animal studies program at the Animals and Society Institute for fifteen years. Her many books include Mourning Animals: Rituals and Practices Surrounding Animal Death (2016).

Summary

Human-animal studies is an interdisciplinary field that explores the spaces that animals occupy in human social and cultural worlds. Margo DeMello provides a broad overview of this rapidly growing field. This second edition is fully updated and expanded throughout, enhancing the book’s relevance for student and activist readers alike.

Product details

Authors Margo DeMello, DeMello Margo
Publisher Columbia University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 28.02.2021
 
EAN 9780231194846
ISBN 978-0-231-19484-6
No. of pages 616
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History
Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > General, dictionaries

History, HISTORY / General

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