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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"animal symbolism"”.
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The Stocksman's Shadow: An Ethnography of Ethics and Symbolism in the Yorkshire Dales
… anthropology of ethics and the anthropology of animal symbolism. Combined, they provide the necessary tools with which to discuss both how sheep are here perceived and how that perception might shape the ways in which the Dalesman daily comports himself. The main ethnographic body of this …
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Reading in the animal vernacular: the bestiary as lay genre in medieval England
… exclusively monastic use does not explain. The animal imagery that appears in vernacular media requires a nuanced understanding from the audience in order to have any meaning beyond superficial figural representation; in other words, the laity had acquired a “literacy” of the bestiary’s animal …
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Pink is the New Bull: The Feminization of Pit Bulls in Visual and Literary Discourses as a Rescue Tactic
… through visual and literary discourses, female animal activists, advocates, and rescuers are intentionally situating pit bulls within feminine spaces to disrupt their associations with masculinity and male violence to make them more appealing and henceforth adoptable by predominantly white, …