Animals and Human Society

Animals and Human Society

Author: Colin G. Scanes

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2017-09-18

Total Pages: 542

ISBN-13: 0128054387

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Animals and Human Society provides a solid, scientific, research-based background to advance understanding of how animals impact humans. Animals have had profound effects on people from the earliest times, ranging from zoonotic diseases, to the global impact of livestock, poultry and fish production, to the influences of human-associated animals on the environment (on extinctions, air and water pollution, greenhouse gases, etc.), to the importance of animals in human evolution and hunter -gatherer communities.As a resource for both science and non-science, Animals and Human Society can be used as a text for courses in Animals and Human Society or Animal Science, or as supplemental material for Introduction to Animal Science. It offers foundational background to those who may have little background in animal agriculture and have focused interest on companion animals and horses. The work introduces livestock production (including poultry and aquaculture) but also includes coverage of companion and lab animals. In addition, animal behavior and animal perception are covered.Animals and Human Society is likewise an excellent resource for researchers, academics, or students newly entering a related field or coming from another discipline and needing foundational information, as well as interested laypersons looking to augment their knowledge on the many impacts of animals in human society. - Features research-based and pedagogically sound content, with learning goals and textboxes to provide key information - Challenges readers to consider issues based on facts rather than polemics - Poses ethical questions and raises overall societal impacts - Balances traditional animal science with companion animals, animal biology, zoonotic diseases, animal products, environmental impacts and all aspects of human/animal interaction


Animals and Society

Animals and Society

Author: Margo DeMello

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 0231152957

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This textbook provides a full overview of human-animal studies. It focuses on the conceptual construction of animals in American culture and the way in which it reinforces and perpetuates hierarchical human relationships rooted in racism, sexism, and class privilege.


Animals and Human Society

Animals and Human Society

Author: Aubrey Manning

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-11-01

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 113487426X

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Modern society is beginning to re-examine its whole relationship with animals and the natural world. Until recently issues such as animal welfare and environmental protection were considered the domain of small, idealistic minorities. Now, these issues attract vast numbers of articulate supporters who collectively exercise considerable political muscle. Animals, both wild and domestic, form the primary focus of concern in this often acrimonious debate. Yet why do animals evoke such strong and contradictory emotions in people - and do our western attitudes have anything in common with those of other societies and cultures? Bringing together a range of contributions from distinguished experts in the field, Animals and Society explores the importance of animals in society from social, historical and cross-cultural perspectives.


Animals and Human Society in Asia

Animals and Human Society in Asia

Author: Rotem Kowner

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-11-06

Total Pages: 459

ISBN-13: 303024363X

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This edited collection offers a comprehensive overview of the different aspects of human-animal interactions in Asia throughout history. With twelve thematically-arranged chapters, this book examines the diverse roles that beasts, livestock, and fish — real and metaphorical– have played in Asian history, society, and culture. Ranging from prehistory to the present day, the authors address a wealth of topics including the domestication of animals, dietary practices and sacrifice, hunting, the use of animals in war, and the representation of animals in literature and art. Providing a unique perspective on human interaction with the environment, the volume is cross-disciplinary in its reach, offering enriching insights to the fields of animal ethics, Asian studies, world history and more.


Shared Lives of Humans and Animals

Shared Lives of Humans and Animals

Author: Tuomas Räsänen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-04-21

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 135185710X

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Animals are conscious beings that form their own perspective regarding the lifeworlds in which they exist, and according to which they act in relation to their species and other animals. In recent decades a thorough transformation in societal research has taken place, as many groups that were previously perceived as being passive or subjugated objects have become active subjects. This fundamental reassessment, first promoted by feminist and radical studies, has subsequently been followed by spatial and material turns that have brought non-human agency to the fore. In human–animal relations, despite a power imbalance, animals are not mere objects but act as agents. They shape our material world and our encounters with them influence the way we think about the world and ourselves. This book focuses on animal agency and interactions between humans and animals. It explores the reciprocity of human–animal relations and the capacity of animals to act and shape human societies. The chapters draw on examples from the Global North to explore how human life in modernity has been and is shaped by the sentience, autonomy, and physicality of various animals, particularly in landscapes where communities and wild animals exist in close proximity. It offers a timely contribution to animal studies, environmental geography, environmental history, and social science and humanities studies of the environment more broadly.


Animals Make Us Human

Animals Make Us Human

Author: Temple Grandin

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 0151014892

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The author of "Animals in Translation" employs her own experience with autism and her background as an animal scientist to show how to give animals the best and happiest life.


Animals, Disease, and Human Society

Animals, Disease, and Human Society

Author: Joanna Swabe

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 0415181933

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This book explores the history and nature of our dependency on other animals and the implications of this for human and animal health. Writing from an historical and sociological perspective, Joanna Swabe's work discusses such issues as: * animal domestication * the consequences of human exploitation of other animals, including links between human and animal disease * the rise of a veterinary regime, designed to protect humans and animals alike * implications of intensive farming practices, pet-keeping and recent biotechnological developments. This account spans a period of some ten thousand years, and raises important questions about the increasing intensification of animal use for both animal and human health.


We Are Best Friends: Animals in Society

We Are Best Friends: Animals in Society

Author: Leslie Irvine

Publisher: MDPI

Published: 2019-10-01

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 3039215361

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Friendships between humans and non-human animals were once dismissed as sentimental anthropomorphism. After decades of research on the emotional and cognitive capacities of animals, we now recognize human–animal friendships as true reciprocal relationships. Friendships with animals have many of the same characteristics as friendships between humans. Both parties enjoy the shared presence that friendship entails along with the pleasures that come with knowing another being. Both friends develop ways of communicating apart from, or in addition to, spoken language.


Regarding Animals

Regarding Animals

Author: Arnold Arluke

Publisher: Pearson Education

Published: 2010-06-04

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1439903883

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Questioning our conflicting views of the role of animals.


Beastly Natures

Beastly Natures

Author: Dorothee Brantz

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Published: 2010-07-08

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0813929474

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