{"product_id":"humanhorse-relations-and-the-ethics-of-knowing-9781032137605","title":"HumanHorse Relations and the Ethics of Knowing","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores how equestrians are highly invested in the idea of profound connection between horse and human and focuses on the ethical problem of knowing horses. In describing how true' connection with horses matters, Rosalie Jones McVey investigates what sort of thing comes to count as a good relationship' and how riders work to get there. Drawing on fieldwork in the British horse world, she illuminates the ways in which equestrian culture instils the idea that horse people \u003ci\u003eshould know their horses better\u003c\/i\u003e. Using horsemanship as one exemplary instance where truth' holds ethical traction, the book demonstrates the importance of epistemology in late modern ethical life. It also raises the question of whether, and how, the concept of truth should matter to multispecies ethnographers in their ethnographic representations of animals. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I am enthralled...don't know when I have enjoyed a manuscript so much\" - Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern, University of Cambridge\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a first-rate book. The ethnography is rich and very sensitively and imaginatively interpreted. And the analysis is consistently penetrating and original... I think certain to be influential.\" - James Laidlaw, William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book represents a highly original and subtle accounting of alternative horsemanship in the UK. With insightful interventions into a range of debates, especially within multispecies ethnography and the anthropology of ethics, \u003ci\u003eHuman-Horse Relations and the Ethics of Knowing\u003c\/i\u003e breaks new ground. It invites us to think again about the relationships of engagement and detachment between horse and rider. Most impressively, it crafts a careful and beautifully rendered description of ideologies of training in practice and gets us to consider afresh the tensions and freedoms expressed through such form of human-animal partnership. A wonderful read.\" - Adam Reed, University of St Andrews\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: #Two Hearts and Tall Tales\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Who Belongs in the Horse World Now?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 \"Learn From the Horse, Don’t Label Him!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Articulating Equine Characters and Human Virtues\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Infantilisation and the Ethics of the Un-real\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Qualifying the Centaur\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: Never Straight from the Horse’s Mouth\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018861314391,"sku":"9781032137605","price":118.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032137605.jpg?v=1750778427","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/humanhorse-relations-and-the-ethics-of-knowing-9781032137605","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}