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Companion Animals in Everyday Life: Situating Human-Animal Engagement Within Cultures (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781137595713)
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xThis 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.
Author: Michal Piotr Pręgowski
ISBN-10: 113759571X
ISBN-13: 9781137595713
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 09/15/2016
Pages: 313
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 8.64h x 6.01w x 0.93d
Author: Michal Piotr Pręgowski
ISBN-10: 113759571X
ISBN-13: 9781137595713
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 09/15/2016
Pages: 313
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 8.64h x 6.01w x 0.93d
By Michal Piotr Pręgowski
xMichal 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 czlowiek? Relacje ps i ludzi we wspczesnej 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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