Animals and Human Society: Changing Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Aubrey Manning, James Serpell

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 238
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

As modern society begins to re/examine its relationship with animals, as well as the larger global environment, the idea of small, utopian minorities as the only ones concerned with issues of animal welfare and environmental protections has begun to be replaced. Vast numbers of articulate supporters, from Hollywood stars to powerful political figures are now at the forefront of these fights. Animals, both wild and 8omestic--spotted owls, alley cats, lab rats and vanishing other species--are the most visible issue in the debates. This book brings together a broad range of contributions from the distinguished in the field. The book explores the importance of animals in society from sociological, historical and cross-cultural perspectives.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of plates......Page 8
Notes on contributors......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
FROM TRUST TO DOMINATION: AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY OF HUMAN-ANIMAL RELATIONS......Page 14
THE UNNATURAL WORLD: BEHAVIOURAL ASPECTS OF HUMANS AND ANIMALS IN THE PROCESS OF DOMESTICATION......Page 36
ANIMALS IN THE ANCIENT WORLD......Page 49
ANIMALS IN MEDIEVAL PERCEPTIONS: THE IMAGE OF THE UBIQUITOUS OTHER......Page 72
CRUELTY AND KINDNESS TO THE 'BRUTE CREATION': STABILITY AND CHANGE IN THE ETHICS OF THE MAN-ANIMAL RELATIONSHIP, 1600 1850......Page 94
ANIMALS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN: COMPLICATED ATTITUDES AND COMPETING CATEGORIES......Page 119
PETS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF POSITIVE ATTITUDES TO ANIMALS......Page 140
MANAGING EMOTIONS IN AN ANIMAL SHELTER......Page 158
ATTITUDES, KNOWLEDGE AND BEHAVIOUR TOWARD WILDLIFE AMONG THE INDUSTRIAL SUPERPOWERS: THE UNITED STATES, JAPAN AND GERMANY......Page 179
BRIDGE-BUILDING AT LAST......Page 201
Index......Page 208