Between the Species: A Reader in Human-Animal Relationships

by Arluke; Arnold

• ISBN13: 9780205594931
• ISBN10: 020559493X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-11-18
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This antholgy, from the literature of sociology and other disciplines as well, examines the various roles that animals play in human societies, and the interactions between people and animals.

Author Biography

Arnold Arluke is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Northeastern University and Senior Scholar at Tufts University Center for Animals and Public Policy.  He has published over 70 articles and nine books, including Regarding Animals (with Clinton Sanders), Just a Dog: Understanding Animal Cruelty and Ourselves, Brute Force: Animal Police and the Challenge of Cruelty, and The Sacrifice: How Scientific Experiments Transform Animals and People.  He also edits with Clinton Sanders the Animals, Culture, and Society series at Temple University Press.  Arluke received the Distinguished Scholar award given by the International Association of Human-Animal Organizations and the Human Hero award from the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.  Along with Sanders, they both received the Charles Horton Cooley award for Regarding Animals.

 

Clinton R. Sanders is Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut.  In addition to being coauthor of Regarding Animals and co-editor of the Temple University Press Animals, Culture, and Society series (with Arnold Arluke), he is author of Customizing the Body: The Art and Culture of Tattooing (1989) and Understanding Dogs: Living and Working with Canine Companions (1999). He has been President (2002-2003) and Vice-president (1994-1995) of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction.  Sanders was the 2006 recipient of the Distinguished Scholarship award given by the Animals and Society section of the American Sociological Association.

Table of Contents

Animal, Self, and Society

Thinking with Animals

ldquo;The How and Why of Thinking with Animals,rdquo;

ldquo;Dirty Birds, Filthy Immigrants, and the English Sparrow War: metaphorical Linkage in Construction Social Problems,rdquo;

ldquo;Race, Place, and the Human-Animal Divide,rdquo;

ldquo;Cultured Killers: Creating and Representing Foxhounds,rdquo;

Close Relationships

ldquo;Actions Speak Louder than Words: Close Relationships Between Humans and Nonhuman Animals,rdquo;

ldquo;My Dogrsquo;s Just Like Me: Dog Ownership as a Gender Display,rdquo;

ldquo;She Was Family: Women of Color and Animal-Human Connections,rdquo;

The Darkside

ldquo;The Causes of Animal Abuse: A Social Psychological Analysisrdquo;

ldquo;Battered Women and Their Animal Companions: Symbolic Interaction Between Human and Nonhuman Animals,rdquo;

ldquo;The Relationship of Animal Abuse and Interpersonal Violence,rdquo;

Wild(Life) Encounters

ldquo;Paradise Lost: The Transformation of Wildlife Law in the Vanishing Wilderness,rdquo;

ldquo;Swimming with Dolphins: A Phenomenological Exploration of Tourist Recollections

ldquo;Zoopolis,rdquo; Jennifer Wolch, in Animal Geographies, edited

Animals in Institutions

Science

ldquo;Savages, Drunks and Lab Animals: The Researcherrsquo;s Perception of Pain,rdquo;

ldquo;Human Morality and Animal Research: Confessions and Quandaries,rdquo;

ldquo;Cloning Mutts, Saving Tigers: Ethical Emergents in Technocultural Dog Worlds,rdquo;

Agriculture

ldquo;Consuming the Surplus: Expanding Meat Consumption and Animal Oppression,rdquo;

ldquo;The Feminist Traffic in Animals,rdquo;

ldquo;Once You Kno

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