Animals in Person Cultural Perspectives on Human-Animal Intimacies

Our relationship with animals is complex and contradictory: we hunt, kill, and eat them, yet we also love, respect and protect them. This ambivalent relationship is further complicated by the fact that we attribute human emotions and intelligence to animals. We even go as far as likening them to children and treating them as family members. Drawing on a diverse range of case studies, this book attempts to unravel our intimate and fascinating link with the animal kingdom.

John Knight is Lecturer, Queen's University Belfast.

Introduction * Care, Order and Usefulness: The Context of the Human-Animal Relationship in a Greek Island Community--Dimitrios Theodossopoulos * Person, Place or Pig: Animal Attachments and Human Transactions in New Guinea--Peter D. Dwyer and Monica Minnegal * Disciplined Affections: The Making of an English Pack of Foxhounds--Garry Marvin * On ‘Loving Your Water-Buffalo More Than Your Own Mother’: Relationships of Animal and Human Care in Nepal--Ben Campbell * Loved to Death? Veterinary Visions of Pet-keeping in Modern Dutch Society--Joanna Swabe * From Trap to Lap: The Changing Sociogenic Identity of the Rat--Birgitta Edelman * The Unbearable Likeness of Being: Children, Teddy-bears and The Sooty Show--Candi Forrest, L. Goldman and M. Emmison * The Elephant-Mahout Relationship in India and Nepal: A Tourist Attraction--Lynette A. Hart * Loving Leviathan: The Discourse of Whale Watching in Australian Ecotourism--Adrian Peace * Enchanting Dolphins: An Analysis of Human-Dolphin Encounters--Véronique Servais * Feeding Mr Monkey: Cross-species Food ‘Exchange’ in Japanese Monkey Parks--John Knight * Anthropomorphism or Egomorphism? The Perception of Non-human Persons by Human Ones--Kay Milton Introduction * Care, Order and Usefulness: The Context of the Human-Animal Relationship in a Greek Island Community--Dimitrios Theodossopoulos * Person, Place or Pig: Animal Attachments and Human Transactions in New Guinea--Peter D. Dwyer and Monica Minnegal * Disciplined Affections: The Making of an English Pack of Foxhounds--Garry Marvin * On ‘Loving Your Water-Buffalo More Than Your Own Mother’: Relationships of Animal and Human Care in Nepal--Ben Campbell * Loved to Death? Veterinary Visions of Pet-keeping in Modern Dutch Society--Joanna Swabe * From Trap to Lap: The Changing Sociogenic Identity of the Rat--Birgitta Edelman * The Unbearable Likeness of Being: Children, Teddy-bears and The Sooty Show--Candi Forrest, L. Goldman and M. Emmison * The Elephant-Mahout Relationship in India and Nepal: A Tourist Attraction--Lynette A. Hart * Loving Leviathan: The Discourse of Whale Watching in Australian Ecotourism--Adrian Peace * Enchanting Dolphins: An Analysis of Human-Dolphin Encounters--Véronique Servais * Feeding Mr Monkey: Cross-species Food ‘Exchange’ in Japanese Monkey Parks--John Knight * Anthropomorphism or Egomorphism? The Perception of Non-human Persons by Human Ones--Kay Milton