| Description |
xiv, 362 pages ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-338) and index. |
| Summary |
"Animal studies is a growing interdisciplinary field that incorporates scholarship from public policy, sociology, religion, philosophy, and many other areas. In essence, it seeks to understand how humans study and conceive of other-than-human animals, and how these conceptions have changed over time, across cultures, and across different ways of thinking. This introduction to the field boldly and creatively foregrounds the realities of nonhuman animals, as well as the imaginative and ethical faculties that humans must engage to consider our intersection with living beings outside of our species. It also compellingly demonstrates that the breadth and depth of thinking and humility needed to grasp the human-nonhuman intersection has the potential to expand the dualism that currently divides the sciences and humanities. As the first holistic survey of the field, Animal Studies is essential reading for any student of human-animal relationships and for all people who care about the role nonhuman animals play in our society."--Page 4 of cover. |
| Contents |
Opening doors -- Through open doors : the challenges of history, culture, and education -- Science, politics, and other animals -- Early twenty-first-century animal studies : three cutting edges -- Animals in the creative arts -- Animals in philosophy -- Comparative studies : legal systems, religions, and cultures -- Animals and modern social realities -- The special roles of anthropology, archaeology, and geography -- Telling the larger story -- Marginalized humans and other animals -- The question of leadership : getting beyond pioneers and leaders to individual choices -- The future of animal studies. |
| Subject |
Animals (Philosophy)
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Animal welfare -- Philosophy.
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Animal behavior -- Study and teaching.
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Animal rights.
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| ISBN |
9780199827015 (cloth alkaline paper) |
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019982701X (cloth alkaline paper) |
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9780199827039 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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0199827036 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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