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• Acknowledgements
• Loving and exploiting animals: An introduction
• Kristof Dhont and Gordon Hodson
• The animal in me: Understanding what brings us closer and pushes us away from other animals
• Brock Bastian and Catherine Amiot
• The psychology of speciesism
• Kristof Dhont, Gordon Hodson, Ana C. Leite, and Alina Salmen
• Putting the "Free" back in freedom: The failure and future of animal welfare science
• Jessica Pierce
• Devaluing animals, "animalistic" humans, and people who protect animals
• Gordon Hodson, Kristof Dhont, and Megan Earle
• Kittens, pigs, rats, and apes: The psychology of animal metaphors
• Nick Haslam, Elise Holland, and Michelle Stratemeyer
• Uncanny valley of the apes
• Vanessa Woods and Brian Hare
• Why people love animals yet continue to eat them
• Jared Piazza
• Featherless chickens and puppies that glow in the dark: Moral heuristics and the concept of animal "naturalness"
• Christopher J. Holden and Harold Herzog
• Accomplishing the most good for animals
• Jon Bockman
• The meat paradox
• Steve Loughnan and Thomas Davies
• How we love and hurt animals: Considering cognitive dissonance in young meat eaters
• Hank Rothgerber
• Humane hypocrisies: Making killing acceptable
• John Sorenson
• The end of factory farming: Changing hearts, minds, and the system
• Gene Baur
• Steakholders: How pragmatic strategies can make the animal protection movement more effective
• Tobias Leenaert
• Animals as social groups: An intergroup relations analysis of human-animal conflicts
• Veronica Sevillano and Susan T. Fiske
• The moral march to meatless meals: The scripted Hebrew meat prohibitions versus the unscripted path to becoming vegetarian or vegan
• Paul Rozin and Matthew B. Ruby
• The ground of animal ethics
• Carol J. Adams and Matthew Calarco
• So why do we love but exploit animals? Reflections and solutions
• Gordon Hodson and Kristof Dhont.
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This unique book brings together research and theorizing on human-animal relations, animal advocacy, and the factors underlying exploitative attitudes and behaviors towards animals. Why do we both love and exploit animals? Assembling some of the world's leading academics and with insights and experiences gleaned from those on the front lines of animal advocacy, this pioneering collection breaks new ground, synthesizing scientific perspectives and empirical findings. The authors show the complexities and paradoxes in human-animal relations and reveal the factors shaping compassionate versus exploitative attitudes and behaviors towards animals. Exploring topical issues such as meat consumption, intensive farming, speciesism, and effective animal advocacy, this book demonstrates how we both value and devalue animals, how we can address animal suffering, and how our thinking about animals is connected to our thinking about human intergroup relations and the dehumanization of human groups. This is essential reading for students, scholars, and professionals in the social and behavioral sciences interested in human-animal relations, and will also strongly appeal to members of animal rights organizations, animal rights advocates, policy makers, and charity workers.
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Anthrozoology, the study of human-animal interactions (HAIs), has experienced substantial growth during the past 20 years and it is now timely to synthesise what we know from empirical evidence about our relationships with both domesticated and wild animals. Two principal points of focus have become apparent in much of this research. One is the realisation that the strength of these attachments not only has emotional benefits for people, but confers health benefits as well, such that a whole area has opened up of using companion animals for therapeutic purposes. The other is the recognition that the interactions we have with animals have consequences for their welfare too, and thus impact on their quality of life. Consequently we now study HAIs in all scenarios in which animals come into contact with humans, whether as pets/companions, farm livestock, laboratory animals, animals in zoos, or in the wild. This topical area of study is of growing importance for animals in animal management, animal handling, animal welfare and applied ethology courses, and also for people within psychology, anthropology and human geography at both the undergraduate and postgraduate level. It will therefore be of interest to students, researchers, and animal managers across the whole spectrum of human-animal contact.
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• Morten Tonnessen and Kadri Tuur: The semiotics of animal representations Part I: From Shepherding To Colonisation Louise Westling: The zoosemiotics of sheep herding with dogs David Rothenberg: Avian aesthetics: The representation of bird song from music to science Christos Lynteris: Speaking marmots, deaf hunters: Animal-human semiotic breakdown as the imagined cause of the Manchurian pneumonic plague of 1910-11 Part II: From Illustration To Show Adam Dodd: Entomological rhetoric and the fabrication of the insect world Larissa Budde: "Back on the menu": Humans, insectoid aliens and the creation of ecophobia in science fiction Graham Huggan: Attenborough's natural history films: The evolutionary epic Part III: From Life Writing To Nature Writing Taija Kaarlenkaski: Communicating with the cow: Human-animal interaction in written narratives Maki Eguchi: The representation of sheep in modern Japanese literature from Natsume Soseki to Murakami Haruki Sandra Manty: Animal representation in the Harry Potter series Kadri Tuur: Like a fish out of water: Literary representations of fish Part IV: From Mind To Value Wendy Wheeler: Thought without concepts in Angels and Insects: A.S. Byatt as crypto-biosemiotician W. John Coletta: A Peircean semiotic model for describing the anti-Oedipal structure of "humanimal" selves Ralph R. Acampora: The (proto-)ethical significance of semiosis: When and how does one become somebody who matters? List of contributors Index.
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The ways in which we represent animals say much about who we are, who we strive to be, and our often conflicting ideas about our relationships with nonhuman species. Whether the animal is seen as someone with whom we can relate and feel kinship or conceived of as the radical other, popular cultural descriptions of animals are often - if not always - indirect descriptions of ourselves. The contributions to this volume offer a unique panorama of academic and literary approaches, demonstrating that an analysis of cultural representations and constructions of animals is indispensable for a better understanding of the interface of human culture and the so-called animal world.
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• Contributors include: Nicola Taylor, Henry Buller, Marc Higgin, Diane Dutton, Sue Dawson, Par Segerdahl, Jozsef Topal and Marta Gacsi, Gabriella Lakatos and Adam Miklosi, Mette Miriam Boell and Francoise Wemelsfelder.
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Many people feel strong bonds with nonhuman animals, and these relationships are central to much emerging scholarship in human-animal studies. Yet to study relationships is not straightforward; research often focuses on how humans affect animals or vice versa rather than on the relationships themselves. Partly, this is a consequence of the history of disciplinary divisions, particularly between natural and social sciences. In this book, contributors from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds reflect on the methodological challenges they face, and how they go about studying relationships between people and animals. The book provides fascinating insights into how research on human-animal relationships can rise to the challenges of interdisciplinarity, and help us to understand the animals with whom we bond.
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• 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 multispecies ethnography Bibliography Index.
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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.
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What are our attitudes towards other animals, and how does this affect our humanity? This work of anthrozoology explores 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. This book looks at case studies covering blood sports (such as hunting, fishing and bull fighting), pet keeping and `petishism', eco-tourism and wildlife conservation, working animals and animals as food. It addresses the idea of animal exploitation raised by the animal rights movements, 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.
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Nothing turns a baby's head more quickly than the sight or sound of an animal. This fascination is driven by the ancient chemical forces that first drew humans and animals together. It is also the same biology that transformed wolves into dogs and skittish horses into valiant comrades that would carry us into battle. Made for Each Other is the first book to explain how this chemistry of attraction and attachment flows through--and between--all mammals to create the profound emotional bonds humans and animals still feel today. Drawing on recent discoveries from neuroscience, evolutionary biology, behavioral psychology, archeology, as well as her own investigations, Meg Daley Olmert explains why the brain chemistry humans and animals trigger in each other also has a profound effect on our mental and physical well being. This lively and original investigation asks what happens when the bond is severed. If thousands of years of caring for animals infused us with a biology that shaped our hearts and minds, do we dare turn our back on it? Daley Olmert makes a compelling and scientific case for what our hearts have always known, that we were, and always will be, made for each other.
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• 1 - Postdomesticity: Our Lives with Animals 2 - The Stages of Human-Animal Relations
• 3 - Separation: The Human-Animal Divide 4 - Predomesticity
• 5 - Where the Tame Things Are 6 - Domestication and Usefulness 7 - From Mighty Hunter to Yajamana 8 - Early Domesticity: My Ass and Yours 9 - Late Domestic Divergences 10 - Toward Postdomesticity 11 - The Future of Human-Animal RelationsNotes Suggested Reading.
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Richard W. Bulliet has long been a leading figure in the study of human-animal relations, and in his newest work, Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers, he offers a sweeping and engaging perspective on this dynamic relationship from prehistory to the present. By considering the shifting roles of donkeys, camels, cows, and other domesticated animals in human society, as well as their place in the social imagination, Bulliet reveals the different ways various cultures have reinforced, symbolized, and rationalized their relations with animals. Bulliet identifies and explores four stages in the history of the human-animal relationship-separation, predomesticity, domesticity, and postdomesticity. He begins with the question of when and why humans began to consider themselves distinct from other species and continues with a fresh look at how a few species became domesticated. He demonstrates that during the domestic era many species fell from being admired and even worshipped to being little more than raw materials for various animal-product industries. Throughout the work, Bulliet discusses how social and technological developments and changing philosophical, religious, and aesthetic viewpoints have shaped attitudes toward animals. Our relationship to animals continues to evolve in the twenty-first century. Bulliet writes, "We are today living through a new watershed in human-animal relations, one that appears likely to affect our material, social, and imaginative lives as profoundly as did the original emergence of domestic species." The United States, Britain, and a few other countries are leading a move from domesticity, marked by nearly universal familiarity with domestic species, to an era of postdomesticity, in which dependence on animal products continues but most people have no contact with producing animals. Elective vegetarianism and the animal-liberation movement have combined with new attitudes toward animal science, pets, and the presentation of animals in popular culture to impart a distinctive moral, psychological, and spiritual tone to postdomestic life.
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• List of figures List of contributors Preface and acknowledgements--
• 1. Animal Space, Beastly Places: An Introduction Chris Philo and Chris Wilbert--
• 2. Flush and the Banditti: Dogstealing in Victorian London Philip Howell--
• 3. Feral Cats in the City Huw Griffiths, Ingrid Poulter and David Sibley--
• 4. Attitudes Towards Animals Among African-American Women in Los Angeles Jennifer Wolch, Alec Brownlow and Unna Lassiter--
• 5. Taking Stock of Farm Animals and Rurality Richard Yarwood and Nick Evans--
• 6. Versions of Animal-Human: Broadland c, 1945-1970 David Matless--
• 7. A Wolf in the Garden: Ideology an Change in the Adirondack Landscape Alec Brownlow--
• 8. What's A River Without the Fish? Symbol, Space and Ecosystem in the Waterways of Japan--
• 9. Fantastic Mr Fox? Representing Animals in the Hunting Debate Michael Woods--
• 10. Hunting with the Camera: Wildlife and Colonialism in Africa James R Ryan--
• 11. Biological Cultivation: Lubetkin's Modernism at London Zoo in the-- 1930's Pyrs Gruffudd--
• 12. Virtual Animals in Electronic Zoos: The Changing Geographies of Animal capture and Display Gail Davies--
• 13. (Un)ethical Geographies of Human - Non-Human Relations: Encounters, Collectives and Space Owain Jones--
• 14. Afterword: Enclosure Michael Watts.
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Animal Spaces, Beastly Places examines how animals interact and relate with people in different ways. Using a comprehensive range of examples, which include feral cats and wild wolves, to domestic animals and intensively farmed cattle, the contributors explore the complex relations in which humans and non-human animals are mixed together. Our emotions involving animals range from those of love and compassion to untold cruelty, force, violence and power. As humans we have placed different animals into different categories, according to some notion of species, usefulness, domesticity or wildness. As a result of these varying and often contested orderings, animals are assigned to particular places and spaces. Animal Spaces, Beastly Places shows us that there are many exceptions and variations on the spatiality of human-animal spatial orderings, within and across cultures, and over time. It develops new ways of thinking about human animal interactions and encourages us to find better ways for humans and animals to live together.
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This book explores the variations on the human-animal spatial orderings. It develops new ways of thinking about human animal interactions and encourges us to find new ways for humans and animals to live together.
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• Introduction 'Good To Think with': Theories of Human-Animal Relations in Modernity From Modernity to Postmodernity The Zoological Gaze Pets and Modern Cultures Naturalizing Sports Hunting and Angling in Modernity Animals and the Agricultural Industry From Farming to Animal Protein Production Animal Foodways Animal Rites.
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The dramatic transformation of relationships between humans and animals in the 20th century are investigated in this fascinating and accessible book. At the beginning of this century these relationships were dominated by human needs and interests, modernization was a project which was attached to the goal of progress and animals were merely resources to be used on the path towards human fulfilment. As the century comes to an end these relationships are increasingly being subjected to criticism. We are now urged to be more sensitive and compassionate to animal needs and interests. This book focuses on social change and animals, it is concerned with how humans relate to animals and how this has changed and why. Moreover, it highlights, through chapters on companion animals, hunting and fishing, animal leisures such as birdwatching and wildlife parks, and the meat and livestock industries, how attitudes and practices towards animals vary widely according to social class, ethnicity, gender, region and nation.
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Written by the author of "Animals, The Law and Veterinary Medicine", this cultural survey of the relationship between animals and man explores keeping animals as pets; domestication; feral creatures; higher primate relationships and many other topics, as well as the future of domestication.
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Written by the author of "Animals, The Law and Veterinary Medicine", this cultural survey of the relationship between animals and man explores keeping animals as pets; domestication; feral creatures; higher primate relationships and many other topics, as well as the future of domestication.
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