Anthrozoology, Human-Animal Interactions, Anthropology
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Dossier de Presentación del Programa Viopet VioPet es un programa que acoge temporal o definitivamente a los animales domésticos de víctimas de la violencia familiar. Esta iniciativa surge desde GEVHA (Grupo para el Estudio de la... more
This is a draft of the introductory chapter of a book-in-progress entitled Lizard, which has been contracted for publication in the Animal series of Reaktion Books in London. It discusses the changing definitions of "lizard" throughout... more
This is the final chapter of my book tentatively entitled >Dinomania: Why We Love, Fear, and are Utterly Enchanted by Dinosaurs<, which is to be published by Reaktion Books in London. It discusses how dinosaurs mark a limit to our... more
By examining the narratives associated with animal-themed tattoos, this study explores the various ways in which humans relate to other animals. Participants used animal-likenesses to think about themselves, others, and the world around... more
El texto ofrece una observación sobre la asimilación iconográfica del uso bélico de animales, usando como ejemplo paradigmático el proyecto Bat Bomb (oficialmente X-Ray) desarrollado durante la segunda guerra mundial y que tuvo un cierto... more
This article aims at comparing social practices and rituals related to companion animal death in Japanese, Polish and American cultures. In contemporary Japan, companion animals are increasingly regarded as family members rather than... more
This research study explores human and dog relationships through cultural perspectives. The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether there are more positive attitudes towards pet dogs within Mexican communities, or if negative... more
Abstract ‘Being autistic’ or ‘having Autism Spectrum Disorder’ implies a limited range of ‘being social,’ but the in situ organization of interaction, what Maynard and Marlaire (Qual Soc 15(2):177–202, 1992) call the ‘interactional... more
Monografia w języku polskim, która ukazała się w Wydawnictwie Naukowym "Śląsk" w 2016 roku. Spis treści: Wstęp do ekokrytyki 17 Zagadnienia i problemy badawcze ekokrytyki 19 Przegląd polskich stanowisk wobec problematyki ekologicznej... more
Avian Illuminations Avian Illuminations tells in detail about the many roles of birds in human society, including omens, food, messengers, deities, pets, muses, timekeepers, custodians, hunting companions, environmental indicators,... more
Egyptologists have struggled to understand the role of pigs due to the relatively scarce archaeological evidence that attests to their existence in ancient Egyptian life. Yet despite the poor record at our disposal, a picture has emerged... more
Retomamos nuestras publicaciones tras la pausa estival, y creemos oportuno hacer referencia a las lecturas que nos han acompañado como incentivos de nuestra curiosidad, llenando nuestro ocio de forma constructiva. Un interesante... more
Present research was intended to investigate the relationship between pet attachment and empathy among young adults. CENSHARE Pet Attachment Survey (Holcomb, Williams, & Richards, 1985) was used to measure pet attachment and... more
The discipline of archaeology has long engaged with animals in a utilitarian mode, constructing animals as objects to be hunted, manipulated, domesticated, and consumed. Only recently, in tandem with the rising interest in animals in the... more
Some 2200 years ago, people belonging to the Pazyryk archaeological culture gathered together to bury their dead in mounds on high plateaus in the remote Altai Mountains in the center of Asia. Entire horses—and often groups of horses—were... more
Prior interpretations of the tattoos of nonhuman animals etched upon the preserved human bodies from the Pazyryk archaeological culture of Inner Asia have focused on solely human-generated meanings. This article utilizes an... more
This paper discusses the relationship between anthropomorphism and zoomorphism, using examples of Benga, a pygmy, and Baldy, a highly anthropomorphized chimpanzee, who were both displayed at the Bronx zoo in the early twentieth century.... more
No es lo mismo un animal blanco que un animal albino, ni hay que confundir los animales megros con los que sufren melanismo. Visual y simbólicamente, los animales blancos y los animales negros se destacan en la iconografía antrozoológica,... more
Over the past century, animal healing, channelled and mediated in the past by the longitudinally found figure of the shaman (Winkelman, 2002), has manifested in a very different form through the modern medical practice of Animal Assisted... more
This study utilises relational and human–animal studies approaches—a goal of both of which is to decentre the human as but one element functioning within a web of connections to create human social realities—to explored aspects of the... more
Despite the increasing interest in, and scope of, human-animal studies, few statistically robust measures of attitudes towards animals exist beyond the Animal Attitude Scale (AAS—Herzog, Betchart and Pittman 1991). While extensively... more
A Pith of Oneness delves into the (meta) philosophical underpinning of exploring what might consciousness "be" as it is formed in new amniotic-fluid, gravity-buffered embryonic space. It defines existance as merely polarity energy... more
Pursuing Animal History as Body History, this paper focuses neither on animals nor on humans, but rather on bodies and the different societal demands made on them. It rejects the simple attribution of a history and an actor- or even... more
In my native Galician language, written with spelling corresponding to the jheada (between "j" and "hache" aspirated), coastal and southern, in the style of Manuel Rivas, we have a flat tautological saying and not very subtly... more
As we have done timidly on some other occasion, we have approached certain questions related to the image of the naturalist, and as such, as a naturalist would do, we will try to establish whether or not they all belong to the same... more
Anthropologists are paying increasing attention to human/animal entanglements, rather than treating animals merely as vehicles through which to explore human social life. We suggest that this emerging multispecies focus is best served by... more
The human-animal rapport has been a very genuine, honest and instinctive one in early human communities and in most indigenous societies (Grim, 2006;Serpell 2006; Hobgood-Oster, 2007) as much as it has evolved into a very complicated and... more
"La Voz del Animal Invisible" es un blog activo sobre antrozoología del arte y manifestaciones del arte como simulacro, así como de contenidos de divulgación naturalista susceptibles de adecuarse a dichos conceptos. El texto base, "El... more
The Rising Consciousness of our Animality in 21st Century Documentary Film and Literature
In the early hours of 30th June 1948 a small boy was seized and dragged from a field hut near Uroa on the east coast of Zanzibar and was never seen again. Pugmarks were found nearby, and it was presumed that he had been taken and devoured... more
Conflicts between foreign and Japanese volunteers concerning decisions to euthanize animals that are in terminal condition were noted during anecdotal observation by this author at a Japanese animal rescue shelter. Thus, this research was... more
Chronic human presence and human-animal interactions (HAIs) define zoo environments and affect zoo-animals' behavior and welfare. Prior to the 1960s/70s (e.g., Hediger 1970; Morris 1964; Snyder 1975), humans in the zoo were considered of... more
The purpose of this essay is to explore histories of extinction that human activity is forcefully imposing on the planet and on all the other animals inhabiting it with equal rights to survival. The start of the era that has been defined... more
Despite recent calls to view nonhuman animals as more than objects within archaeological studies, traditional interpretations of horses in Iron Age Inner Asian communities continue to consider them as relevant only through their... more
In the middle of his Nylotic excursus, Seneca describes a strange fight between crocodiles and dolphins. What is the real meaning of the author's anthropomorphic cut of the account?
Introduction for special issue of Otherness: Essays and Studies (5.2), on animal alterity.