Human-Animal Studies – serie
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Animals at work
Identity, politics and culture in work with animals
Av Lindsay Hamilton, Nik Taylor
Häftad, 2013
2257 kr
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Animals at Work is founded upon a broad and unique variety of empirical research settings - animal sanctuaries, farms, slaughter-houses, veterinary practices and behind the scenes of a natural history documentary film-making team. Hamilton and Taylor apply a breadth of post-structural and …
Situationality of Human–Animal Relations – Perspectives from Anthropology and Philosophy
Av Thiemo Breyer, Thomas Widlok m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
382 kr
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Riding, hunting, fishing, bullfighting: Human-animal relations are diverse. This anthology presents various case studies of situations in which humans and animals come into contact and asks for the anthropological and philosophical implications of such encounters. The contributions by renowned …
Animal Labor – A New Perspective on Human–Animal Relations
Av Jean Estebanez, Jocelyne Porcher m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1458 kr
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Do animals work? Is it possible to work with animals without exploiting them? Might animals even be empowered through work? This provocative collection offers original answers to these questions and allows readers to think about human relationships with domestic animals beyond the well-trodden …
Eclectic Bestiary – Encounters in a More–than–Human World
Av Birgit Spengler, Babette B. Tischleder m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
462 kr
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The essays, poetry, and visual art collected here consider the more-than-human cultures of our multispecies world. At a time when humanity's impact has put our planet's ecosystems into great jeopardy, the book explores literary, sonic, and visual imaginaries that feature encounters between and …
Entangled with Bees
A Multimodal Ethnography
Häftad, 2026
735 kr
Kommande
Why have bees and beekeeping gained such popularity over the past two decades? In this ethnographic study, Martin Gruber explores the diverse and intimate entanglements between humans and honeybees across three field sites in Germany, Cameroon, and Japan. Focusing on the sensory, corporeal, and …
Narrating the Multispecies World
Stories in Times of Crises, Loss, and Hope
Häftad, 2025
924 kr
Kommande
In present times, we are increasingly witnessing a loss of life, especially among animals and plants. Some species are becoming extinct, while others struggle to adjust to new habitats. Human beings are looking for strategies to overcome the effects of climate change and mass extinction. The …
Living with Wolves
Affects, Feelings and Sentiments in Human-Wolf-Coexistence
Häftad, 2024
341 kr
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With their return to Germany, wolves leave their traces in personal feelings, in the atmospheres of rural landscapes and even in the sentiments and moods that govern political arenas. Thorsten Gieser explores the role of affects, emotions, moods and atmospheres in the emerging coexistence between …
Human and the Meat
Animal Domination in Capitalist Societies
Häftad, 2025
435 kr
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Over 85 billion animals are killed in slaughterhouses yearly to sustain a profit-driven meat production system – devastating animals, workers, and the environment. How did we get here? How has capitalist society reshaped human-animal relations? Elaborating a novel materialist and intersectional …
Mad about Wildlife
Looking at Social Conflict over Wildlife
Av Ann Herda-Rapp, Theresa Goedeke
Häftad, 2005
1397 kr
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This edited volume documents the presence and types of Nature discourse that emerge during conflicts between people over wildlife. This collection of qualitative case studies demonstrates how social groups create opposing symbolic meanings of Nature and highlights the way in which the successful …
Canis Africanis
A Dog History of Southern Africa
Av Lance van Sittert, Sandra Swart
Häftad, 2007
2110 kr
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This suite of essays is a first for historical writing about southern Africa: they recover an animal’s ubiquitous, yet hidden presence in human history. The authors have used the dog as a way “to think about human society”. The dog is the connecting thread binding these essays, which each reveals a …
Animals and Agency
An Interdisciplinary Exploration
Av Sarah McFarland, Ryan Hediger
Häftad, 2009
2489 kr
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While many scholars who write about animals deal with animal agency in some way, this volume is the first to position the question of nonhuman agency as the primary focus of inquiry. Section I presents studies of actual animals demonstrating agency; Section II moves agency into new terrain while …
Crossing Boundaries
Investigating Human-Animal Relationships
Häftad, 2012
2088 kr
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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 …
Animals and War
Studies of Europe and North America
Av Ryan Hediger
Häftad, 2012
2114 kr
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Animals and War is the first collection of essays to explore its important, yet neglected, topic. Scholars from sociology, history, anthropology, and literary and cultural studies investigate the presence of animals in human wars. The essays analyze a wide range of phenomena, including the new …
Meat Culture
Av Annie Potts
Inbunden, 2016
2400 kr
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The analysis of meat and its place in Western culture has been central to Human-Animal Studies as a field. It is even more urgent now as global meat and dairy production are projected to rise dramatically by 2050. While the term ‘carnism’ denotes the invisible belief system (or ideology) that …
Meat Culture
Av Annie Potts
Häftad, 2016
704 kr
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The analysis of meat and its place in Western culture has been central to Human-Animal Studies as a field. It is even more urgent now as global meat and dairy production are projected to rise dramatically by 2050. While the term ‘carnism’ denotes the invisible belief system (or ideology) that …
Animal Experimentation: Working Towards a Paradigm Change
Av Kathrin Herrmann, Kimberley Jayne
Inbunden, 2019
2974 kr
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Animal experimentation has been one of the most controversial areas of animal use, mainly due to the intentional harms inflicted upon animals for the sake of hoped-for benefits in humans. Despite this rationale for continued animal experimentation, shortcomings of this practice have become …
Cognitive Kin, Moral Strangers? Linking Animal Cognition, Animal Ethics & Animal Welfare
Inbunden, 2019
2476 kr
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In Cognitive Kin, Moral Strangers?, Judith Benz-Schwarzburg reveals the scope and relevance of cognitive kinship between humans and non-human animals. She presents a wide range of empirical studies on culture, language and theory of mind in animals and then leads us to ask why such complex …
Fish, Justice, and Society
Inbunden, 2018
3082 kr
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Fish, Justice, and Society is an in-depth look into the fishing industry, fish, and aquatic environments. This book delves past the façade of what may be known by the average fisherman, bringing to the surface new information about numerous species and aquatic habitats. It is the most comprehensive …
Genealogy of Obedience
Reading North American Dog Training Literature, 1850s-2000s
Inbunden, 2018
2757 kr
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In Genealogy of Obedience Justyna Włodarczyk provides a long overdue look at the history of companion dog training methods in North America since the mid-nineteenth century, when the market of popular training handbooks emerged. Włodarczyk argues that changes in the functions and goals of dog …
Relational Horse
How Frameworks of Communication, Care, Politics and Power Reveal and Conceal Equine Selves
Av Gala Argent, Jeannette Vaught
Inbunden, 2022
2075 kr
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Human-horse relationships take the central place in this edited collection examining the horse’s perspective by asking: How are human-equine relationships communicated, enacted, understood, encouraged, and restricted? The contributors apply varied disciplinary methods as they emphasize …
Absent Interests: On the Abstraction of Human and Animal Milks
Av Sarah Czerny
Inbunden, 2022
2048 kr
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How does milk become cow milk, donkey milk or human milk? When one closely explores this question, the species difference between milks is not as stable as one might initially assume, even if one takes an embodied perspective. To show this, this book takes readers through an ethnographic comparison …
Animals Matter: Resistance and Transformation in Animal Commodification
Inbunden, 2022
1905 kr
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In this book, we reclaim the term “resistance” by exploring how animals can “resist” their commodification through blocking and allowing human intervention in their lives. In the cases explored in this volume, animals lead humans to rethink their relationship to animals by either blocking and/or …
Sentient Entanglements and Ruptures in the Americas: Human-Animal Relations in the Amazon, Andes, and Arctic
Inbunden, 2023
1892 kr
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This book draws together anthropological studies of human-animal relations among Indigenous Peoples in three regions of the Americas: the Andes, Amazonia and the American Arctic. Despite contrasts between the ecologies of the different regions, it finds useful comparisons between the ways that …
Post-Koiné: Studies of Non-Anthropocentric (Poetic) Languages
Inbunden, 2025
3533 kr
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In this book you will come across an authorial formula of extrahuman community and communication. The formula includes languages polemical with the narrow model of community that often excludes certain human and non-human beings. Alternative languages are sensitive to the codes of violence directed …
Stocks or Stakeholders: The Benefits of Considering Animal Interests
Inbunden, 2025
2499 kr
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Animals are typically treated as property in modern societies. Stocks or Stakeholders extends stakeholder theories to animals, arguing that full consideration of their interests will benefit humans. For example, one analysis in the book shows that more protected land is associated with fewer …
Captive Ambassadors: The Hidden Lives of Zoo Animals
Inbunden, 2025
2863 kr
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Captive Ambassadors challenges the notion of zoo animals as "ambassadors" for their species, revealing the exploitative marketing tactics behind their individualized narratives. Drawing on cognitive and behavioral ethology, transspecies psychology, and critical anthropomorphism, this …
Sacred, Symbolic, and Contested
Critical Perspectives on Human-Animal Relations in Culture and Society
Inbunden, 2025
2221 kr
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Sacred, Symbolic, and Contested explores how animals are revered, represented, and disputed across global cultures. Through vivid case studies—from sacred cows in India to ritual slaughter in Judaism and animal commodification in industrial societies—this book reveals how human-animal relationships …
Biographies of Companionship: Living with Bovines in Tamil Country
Inbunden, 2026
1800 kr
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This book weaves together little moments of companionship—a human trying to cajole a mother cow to accept her newborn calf, a cow secretly burying biscuits in the backyard, a human biting a bull's tail, a cow kicking a human, a calf's nose being roped, humans, bulls, and cows walking together. …
