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Regarding Animals (Paperback, New)
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Regarding Animals (Paperback, New)
Series: Animals Culture And Society
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What is it about Western society, ask the authors, that makes it
possible for people to express great affection for animals as
sentient creatures and simultaneously turn a blind eye to the most
callous behavior toward them? Animals are sold as expensive
commodities, used as food and clothing, killed as vermin, and
hunted for sport. But they also are treated as members of the
family, used as the cause celebre of social movements, and made the
subject of art, film, and poetry. Such contradictions motivate
these unique ethnographers to venture into social worlds most
people know about only in passing, such as veterinary clinics where
companion animals are cared for, animal shelters where dogs and
cats are "mercifully" euthanized, and primate labs where monkeys
are kept for animal experimentation. Arluke and Sanders are not
distanced ethnographers. They worked in the clinics, shelters, and
laboratories, cleaning cages, assisting in surgery, and
participating in "sacrificing" animals for science or helping to
provide them with an "easy death." In this book, the people who
work with these animals and live through them talk to the authors
about the strategies they adopt to cope with the stress of the job.
This fascinating book combines sociological analysis with
ethnographic description to give us insight into the history and
practice of how we as human beings construct animals, and by
extrapolation, how we construct ourselves and others in relation to
them. Author note: Arnold Arluke is Professor of Sociology at
Northeastern University and a Research Associate at the Center for
Animals and Public Policy at Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine.
He is an Associate Editor of Society and Animals and the author of
The Making of Rehabilitation: A Political Economy of Medical
Specialization with Glenn Gritzer and Gossip: The Inside Scoop with
Jack Levin. Clinton R. Sanders, Professor of Sociology at the
University of Connecticut, is the author of Customizing the Body:
The Art and Culture of Tattooing (Temple) and the co-editor (with
Jeff Ferrell) of Cultural Criminology.
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