Companion Animals in Everyday Life

Situating Human-Animal Engagement within Cultures
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-59571-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 313 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 5459 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pr¿gowski, Micha¿ Piotr

Pregowski, Michal Piotr

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gesellschaft & Tiere

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword – Robert W. Mitchell

Acknowledgments

List of Figures and Tables

Introduction – Michal Piotr Pregowski

Part I: Conceptualizing our Relationships with Animals

1. Companion Animals and Nuisance Species: Adventures in the Exotic, the Wild, the Illegal and Cross-Cultural Comfort Zones – Sara Waller

2. Anthrozoology in the Netherlands: Connecting Science and Practice – Jannes Eshuis, Marie-José Enders-Slegers, Theo Verheggen

3. Bringing the Beast Back In: The Rehabilitation of Pet Keeping in Soviet Russia – Amy Nelson

Part 2: Taking the Plunge: Adopting a Companion Animal, Traditional and Otherwise

4. Perceptions of Personality: How What We See Influences Our Perceptions about and Behavior toward Companion Animals – Miranda K. Workman

5. “A Cat-sized Hole in my Heart”: Public Perceptions of Companion Animal Adoption in the United States of America – Jennifer Sinski

6. Rabbits Multiplying Like Rabbits: The Rise in the Worldwide Popularity of Rabbits as Pets – Margo DeMello

Part 3: To Eat or to Love?

7. An Appetite for Dogs: Consuming and Loving Them in Vietnam – Anthony L. Podberscek

8. Human-Canine Relationships in China – Scott Hurley

9. Attitudes to Dogs in Taiwan: A Case Study – James Serpell, Yuying Hsu

Part 4: Companion Animals as Political Fallout

10. Semi-Stray Dogs and Graduated Humanness: The Political Encounters of Dogs and Humans in Mexico - Iván Sandoval-Cervantes

11. Polarized Opinions and Shared Goals: Feral Cat Management in an Academic Community in Kentucky – Rosanne Lorden

12. Strong Bonds: Companion Animals in Post-Tsunami Japan – Ross Mouer, Hazuki Kajiwara

Part 5: The Difference Language Makes

13. “I am a dog”: Orhan Pamuk and the Mongrelization of Fiction – Jeanne Dubino

14. Human Names as Companion Animal Names in Poland – Michal Piotr Pregowski

15. Awareness Can Change a Society: The Link between Animal Abuse and Domestic Violence in the Netherlands – Marie-José Enders-Slegers, Theo Verheggen, Jannes Eshuis

Part 6: Companion Animals and Leisure

16. Chats, Cats and a Cup of Tea. A Sociological Analysis of the Neko Café Phenomenon in Japan - Noriko Niijima

17. Canine Disc: America’s Best Export Product to Poland – Justyna Wlodarczyk

List of Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Michal Piotr Pregowski 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. Pregowski's recent books include Pies tez czlowiek? Relacje psów i ludzi we wspólczesnej 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).