Aubrey Manning, James Serpell

Animals and Human Society

Changing Perspectives

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Produktbeschreibung

Over the millennia, human relationships with animals have taken some extraordinary forms. Animals have been worshipped as gods, reviled as evil spirits or as symbols of human depravity. They have been cruelly mistreated as mindless automata, tried and executed for criminal acts, and welcomed into our families as loved companions. And because we have always lived at their expense, animals have also provided a rich and disturbing source of moral conflicts and paradoxes. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the industrial West. Our society is re-examining its whole relationship with animals and the natural world. Until recently, issues such as animal welfare, wildlife conservation and environmental protection were considered the domain of small, idealistic minorities. Now, they have become matters of widespread public and political concern. But is this sudden explosion of interest in the plight of non-human animals purely a western phenomenon without cultural parallels or historical precedents? Or are our current concerns about animals simply the most recent manifestation of an ancient and recurring human preoccupation? Animals and Human Society seeks to answer these questions through a wide-ranging historical, cross-cultural and contemporary reappraisal of human attitudes to animals. The distinguished contributors to Animals and Human Society draw their insights from a variety of disciplines. The book will therefore be of great interest to students of anthropology, sociology and history, as well as to all those concerned about the current status of animals and nature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 162mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 667g
• ISBN-13: 9780415091558
• ISBN-10: 0415091551
• Artikelnr.: 21187397

Autorenporträt

Aubrey Manning is Professor of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh, Chairman of the Scottish Wildlife Trust, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is the author of An Introduction to Animal Behaviour. James Serpell was recently appointed Associate Professor of Humane Ethics and Animal Welfare in the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. He is editor of Companion Animals in Society and author of In the Company of Animals.

Inhaltsangabe

List of plates
Notes on contributors
Introduction
1 FROM TRUST TO DOMINATION: AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY OF HUMAN-ANIMAL RELATIONS
2 THE UNNATURAL WORLD: BEHAVIOURAL ASPECTS OF HUMANS AND ANIMALS IN THE PROCESS OF DOMESTICATION
3 ANIMALS IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
4 ANIMALS IN MEDIEVAL PERCEPTIONS: THE IMAGE OF THE UBIQUITOUS OTHER
5 CRUELTY AND KINDNESS TO THE 'BRUTE CREATION': STABILITY AND CHANGE IN THE ETHICS OF THE MAN-ANIMAL RELATIONSHIP
1600-1850
6 ANIMALS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN: COMPLICATED ATTITUDES AND COMPETING CATEGORIES
7 PETS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF POSITIVE ATTITUDES TO ANIMALS
8 MANAGING EMOTIONS IN AN ANIMAL SHELTER
9 ATTITUDES
KNOWLEDGE AND BEHAVIOUR TOWARD WILDLIFE AMONG THE INDUSTRIAL SUPERPOWERS: THE UNITED STATES
JAPAN AND GERMANY
10 BRIDGE-BUILDING AT LAST
Index