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The Meaning of Horses: Biosocial Encounters examines some of the
engagements or entanglements that link the lived experiences of
human and non-human animals. The contributors discuss horse-human
relationships in multiple contexts, times and places, highlighting
variations in the meaning of horses as well as universals of
'horsiness'. They consider how horses are unlike other animals, and
cover topics such as commodification, identity, communication and
performance. This collection emphasises the agency of the horse and
a need to move beyond anthropocentric studies, with a theoretical
approach that features naturecultures, co-being and biosocial
encounters as interactive forms of becoming. Rooted in anthropology
and multispecies ethnography, this book introduces new questions
and areas for consideration in the field of animals and society.
The Meaning of Horses: Biosocial Encounters examines some of the
engagements or entanglements that link the lived experiences of
human and non-human animals. The contributors discuss horse-human
relationships in multiple contexts, times and places, highlighting
variations in the meaning of horses as well as universals of
'horsiness'. They consider how horses are unlike other animals, and
cover topics such as commodification, identity, communication and
performance. This collection emphasises the agency of the horse and
a need to move beyond anthropocentric studies, with a theoretical
approach that features naturecultures, co-being and biosocial
encounters as interactive forms of becoming. Rooted in anthropology
and multispecies ethnography, this book introduces new questions
and areas for consideration in the field of animals and society.
Focusing on issues of empathy and mutuality, and self and other, as
experienced in the everyday challenges of doing
participant-observation fieldwork, this volume makes a significant
contribution to rethinking the experiential and conceptual
construction of the field. The contributors adopt a critical and
self reflexive approach that goes beyond issues of voice and
representation raised by early postmodern anthropology, to grapple
with issues concerning the nature of knowledge transmission that
lie at the very heart of the ethnographic effort. They explore how
multiple modes of attending, awareness and sense making can shape
the ethnographic process. Of note are those unanticipated, less
palpable forms of communication that are peripheral to or transcend
more formalized and structured research methods and agendas. Among
these are empathy, intuition, somatic modes of attention and/or
embodied knowledge and identification, as well as, shared sensory
experiences and aesthetics. By the elaboration of such concepts the
volume as a whole offers a substantial elaboration of a
phenomenological approach.
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