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Companion Animals in Everyday Life: Situating Human-Animal Engagement within Cultures - Hardcover

 
9781137595713: Companion Animals in Everyday Life: Situating Human-Animal Engagement within Cultures
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 113759571X ISBN 13: 9781137595713
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

This book is an interdisciplinary collection shedding light on human-animal relationships and interactions around the world. The book offers a predominantly empirical look at social and cultural practices related to companion animals in Mexico, Poland, the Netherlands, Japan, China and Taiwan, Vietnam, USA, and Turkey among others. It focuses on how dogs, cats, rabbits and members of other species are perceived and treated in various cultures, highlighting commonalities and differences between them. 

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Michał Piotr Pręgowski is Assistant Professor at the Warsaw University of Technology, Poland. He is a sociologist and a Fulbright alumnus whose research projects include social construction of dogs in the contemporary West, especially their naming and training, as well as social practices of commemorating companion animals. Pręgowski's recent books include Pies też człowiek? Relacje psów i ludzi we współczesnej Polsce (2014), an edited volume on humans and canines in contemporary Poland, as well as Free Market Dogs: The Human-Canine Bond in Post-Communist Poland (2016).

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This book is an interdisciplinary collection shedding light on human-animal relationships and interactions around the world. The book offers a predominantly empirical look at social and cultural practices related to companion animals in Mexico, Poland, the Netherlands, Japan, China and Taiwan, Vietnam, USA, and Turkey among others. It focuses on how dogs, cats, rabbits and members of other species are perceived and treated in various cultures, highlighting commonalities and differences between them.

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Verlag
Palgrave Macmillan
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
113759571X
ISBN 13 
9781137595713
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
340
Herausgeber
Pręgowski Michał Piotr
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