Companion Animals in Everyday Life: Situating Human-Animal Engagement within Cultures
Editat de Michał Piotr Pręgowskien Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 sep 2016
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 113759571X
Pagini: 270
Ilustrații: XXVII, 313 p. 8 illus., 2 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2016
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan US
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:New York, United States
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Notă biografică
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.