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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"human-animal relations"”.
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Being with Bees: An Anthropological Study on Human-Animal Relations in Southern Beekeeping
… the complex and dynamic communicative relationship between beekeepers and their managed honey bee colonies, providing insight into the relationship between bees, their stewards, and the interface between nature and culture. It also helps unravel the ways in which this interspecies …
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Case Studies in Ancient Maya Human-Animal Relations: El Perú, La Corona, and Commensal Mammals
… inhabited a biodiverse landscape filled with animal taxa that provided both physical resources and rich ideological inspiration. To date, faunal studies among the Maya have been more limited than other types of archaeological investigations, leaving much still unknown about how human-animal …
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Becoming with the dog in South Africa Reflections on family, memory, and human-animal relations in post-apartheid South Africa
Can the relationship White people have with the figure of the dog, in what currently exists as South Africa, be free of antiblackness? Following instances where I saw black women who worked as domestic workers walk dogs belonging to their White employers, I write these letters addressed to you, my …
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How the Vikings inhabited Scotland: a social zooarchaeological approach
The field of human-animal relations is a growing area of research, and with regard to the Viking Age the majority of this research has concerned the Scandinavian homelands. Scotland has been recognised as important in the widespread migration of the Vikings, yet subject to little theoretical …
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The Changing Place of Animals in Post-Franco Spain with particular reference to Bullfighting, Popular Festivities, and Pet-keeping.
This is a thesis about the changing place of animals in post-Franco Spain, with particular reference to bullfighting, popular festivities, and pet-keeping. The thesis argues that since the ‘transition’ to democracy (1975-1982), which made Spain one of the most liberal social-democratic states in …
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Care and Companionism: Animal Ethics at the End of Life
… I discuss the different kinds of companion animal and human relations, or in other words, and provide an argument that specifies our ethical obligations to the animals we live with—-our ‘pets.’ In the first chapter, I suggest that there are three types of relationships that humans can have …
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Care and Companionism: Animal Ethics at the End of Life
… I discuss the different kinds of companion animal and human relations, or in other words, and provide an argument that specifies our ethical obligations to the animals we live with—-our ‘pets.’ In the first chapter, I suggest that there are three types of relationships that humans can have …
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Human anxieties, bovine solutions: Political subtexts of native cattle conservation in north-eastern Siberia
… Siberia have lived uneasily in a colonial relationship with the Russian/Soviet state. Since the 1990s, there has been a strong ethnic de-colonising backlash which has struggled to find an appropriate form, from attempts to revive shamanism to budgetary wrangles with the federal government …
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Pests, Knowledge and Boundaries in the Early Union of South Africa: categorising, controlling, conserving
This dissertation interrogates the relationships between humans and animals responsible for creating ‘pests’ as an element in the physical and intellectual landscape of rural South Africa in the 1910s through the 1930s. Through analysing four groups of animals deemed to be pests – herds of ‘rogue’ …
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The corral and the slaughterhouse: knowledge, tradition and the modernization of indigenous reindeer slaughtering practice in the Norwegian Arctic
… is that in recent decades, the proliferation of human powers vested in the conduct of reindeer slaughter has created new conditions for practice, placing the identities of reindeer and herders at stake in new and still only dimly conceptualized ways. By exploring these, the dissertation aims to …
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Engaging Past and Future on a Community Supported Agriculture Farm
… approach to management that works with soil, non-human animals, and humans has resulted in a financially viable small-scale farm within a provincial and national context where the number of small farms has diminished rapidly in the last decade. This site provides a unique opportunity to study a …
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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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Finding balance in unequal relations: the burial of humans and animals in the Viking Age world
The nature of human-animal relationships in the past, like in the present, is intrinsically unbalanced, with humans ultimately holding power over the life and death of many other animal species. This is also true for Viking Age burial customs, where different types of animals were commonly killed …