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Human-Animal Studies is a burgeoning multidisciplinary enterprise.
Human-Animal Studies places the relationships humans have with
other animals, and the relations other animals have with humans, at
the centre of scholarly enquiry, artistic practice, and political
critique. It draws from, and engages with, subjects across the
social sciences, the humanities, and beyond, including
anthropology, archaeology, art, biological sciences, cultural
studies, environmental studies, ethology, geography, gender
studies, history, literary studies, philosophy, religious studies,
science and technology studies, sociology, and visual culture. As
research in and around Human-Animal Studies blossoms as never
before, this new four-volume collection from Routledge's Critical
Concepts in the Social Sciences series meets the need for an
authoritative reference work to make sense of a rapidly growing and
ever more complex corpus of literature. Edited by two leading
scholars, the collection gathers foundational and canonical work,
together with innovative and cutting-edge applications and
interventions. In particular, the editors have fully incorporated
masterworks from South America, Asia, and Africa to capture a truly
global diversity of perspectives. With a full index, together with
a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editors, which
places the collected material in its historical and intellectual
context, Human-Animal Studies is an essential work of reference.
The collection will be particularly useful as an essential database
allowing scattered and often fugitive material to be easily
located. It will also be welcomed by scholars and students as a
crucial tool permitting rapid access to less familiar-and sometimes
overlooked-texts.
Human-animal studies is an academic field that has grown
exponentially over the past decade. It explores the whys, hows, and
whats of human-animal relations: why animals are represented and
configured in different ways in human cultures and societies around
the world; how they are imagined, experienced, and given
significance; what these relationships might signify about being
human; and what about these relationships might be improved for the
sake of the individuals as well as the communities concerned. The
Routledge Handbook of Human-Animal Studies presents a collection of
original essays from artists and scholars who have established
themselves internationally on the basis of specific and significant
new contributions to human-animal studies. This international,
interdisciplinary handbook will be of interest to students and
scholars of human-animal studies, sociology, anthropology, biology,
environmental studies, geography, cultural studies, history,
philosophy, media studies, gender studies, literature, psychology,
ethology, and visual studies.
Human-animal studies is an academic field that has grown
exponentially over the past decade. It explores the whys, hows, and
whats of human-animal relations: why animals are represented and
configured in different ways in human cultures and societies around
the world; how they are imagined, experienced, and given
significance; what these relationships might signify about being
human; and what about these relationships might be improved for the
sake of the individuals as well as the communities concerned. The
Routledge Handbook of Human-Animal Studies presents a collection of
original essays from artists and scholars who have established
themselves internationally on the basis of specific and significant
new contributions to human-animal studies. This international,
interdisciplinary handbook will be of interest to students and
scholars of human-animal studies, sociology, anthropology, biology,
environmental studies, geography, cultural studies, history,
philosophy, media studies, gender studies, literature, psychology,
ethology, and visual studies.
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Wolf (Paperback)
Garry Marvin
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R466
R380
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Feared, reviled and revered, the wolf has always evoked powerful
emotions in humans. It has been admired as a powerful hunter;
feared for the threat it is imagined to pose to humans; reviled for
its depredations on domestic livestock and revered as a potent
symbol of the wild. Wolf explores the ways in which indigenous
hunting societies respected the wolf as a fellow hunter and how,
with the domestication of animals, the wolf became regarded as an
enemy because of attacks on livestock. Such attacks led to the
wolf's reputation as a creature of evil in many human cultures.
Alone or in packs, farmers hated wolves. In children's and other
popular literature, they became the intruder from the wild preying
on the innocent. So powerful is the image of the wolf in the human
imagination that it became the creature that evil humans can
transform into - the dreaded werewolf. Garry Marvin shows how the
ways in which wolves are imagined has had far-reaching implications
for how actual wolves are treated. Fear of this enigmatic creature
eventually led to an attempt to eradicate it as a species. However,
with the development of scientific understanding of wolves and
their place in ecological systems and the growth of popular
environmentalism, the wolf has been re-thought and re-imagined.
Still hated by some, the wolf now has new supporters who regard it
as a charismatic creature of the newly valued wild and wilderness.
The book investigates the latest scientific understanding of the
wolf, as well as its place in literature, history and folklore, and
synthesises a huge range of material to offer insights into our
changing attitudes to wolves.
""Venice, the Tourist Maze" is a popular history of the tragic, at
times comic, impact of mass tourism on Venice. The outlook for
Venice as a living city seems bleak, but the story is fascinating.
Davis and Marvin draw on everything from Baedekers to the local
papers and contemporary interviews to examine the effect of this
flood of people on urban experience and the delicate fabric of the
city, depicting at best an aestheticized museum city, at worst a
degraded theme park. In effect, the authors argue, Venice survives
as a surreal image of itself. This is a fascinating and
well-written book."--Carol Lansing, author of "Power & Purity:
Cathar Heresy in Medieval Italy"
"Anyone inclined to pick up this book will experience over and over
in the course of reading it shivers of intellectual play. For some,
half the stimulation comes with the dismantling of a worn-out
legend: Venice, the Most Romantic City in the World. For others, it
will come while musing on the vivid contradictions revealing that
what is good for Venice in the short term--revenue from tourism--is
killing the city in the ever nearer long term. The authors may
unwittingly encourage even more tourists to go to Venice for the
most post-modern of reasons: to observe tourists observing the most
touristed city in the world. "Venice, The Tourist Maze" is
engrossing, amusing, fascinating, and troubling."--Sally McKee,
author of "Uncommon Dominion, Venetian Crete and the Myth of Ethnic
Purity"
  Why do people go to zoos? Is the role of zoos to
entertain or to educate?
       In this
provocative book, the authors demonstrate that zoos tell us as
       much about humans
as they do about animals and suggest that while animals
       may not need
zoos, urban societies seem to. Â Â Â Â Â
A new introduction takes note of dramatic changes in the perceived
role        of zoos that
have occurred since the book's original publication.
     "Bob Mullan and Garry Marvin
delve into the assumptions about animals
       that are embedded
in our culture. . . . A thought-provoking glimpse of
       our own ideas
about the exotic, the foreign." -- Tess Lemmon, BBC
       Wildlife Magazine
     "A thoughtful and entertaining
guided tour." -- David White,
       New Society
     "[An] unusual and intriguing
combination of historical survey, psychological
       enquiry, and
compendium of fascinating facts." -- Evening Standard Â
This accessible account explores how and why men risk their lives
to perform with and kill wild bulls as part of a public
celebration, describing and analyzing the corrida in a way not
previously attempted in English.
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