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Book SynopsisOffers a perspective on human-animal relations. This book reveals the ways in which various cultures have reinforced, symbolized, and rationalized their relations with animals. It identifies and explores four stages in the history of the human-animal relationship - separation, pre-domesticity, domesticity, and post-domesticity.
Trade ReviewHis book presents a provocative look at human-animal relations that offers a heady but highly readable mix of anthropology...environmentalism and philosophy. Publishers Weekly A precisely researched, logically presented, and candidly intriguing apologia for humankind's inconsistent relationship with animals. Booklist Bulliet has an impressive knowledge of archaeozoology and the history of human relationships with animals. -- Juliet Clutton-Brock Times Literary Supplement Bulliet's writing is irreverent seasoned with humor, and sprinkled with pop references that draw in nonscholarly readers. -- Scott Carlson Utne This provocative thesis is arresting in its originality. -- Glynis Ridley Washington Post You may never look at a pet, or a burger, in quite the same way again. -- Mark Thompson Ecologist The book is notable for many stimulating and original ideas. -- Linda Wiener Science Books & Films This is an original, well-written and fascinating work, a riveting read. -- Barbara Noske Anthropological Forum This book is a welcome addition to the literature... We need more such works. -- Edmund Russell Technology and Culture
Table of Contents1 - Postdomesticity: Our Lives with Animals 2 - The Stages of Human-Animal Relations 3 - Separation: The Human-Animal Divide 4 - Predomesticity 5 - Where the Tame Things Are 6 - Domestication and Usefulness 7 - From Mighty Hunter to Yajamana 8 - Early Domesticity: My Ass and Yours 9 - Late Domestic Divergences 10 - Toward Postdomesticity 11 - The Future of Human-Animal RelationsNotes Suggested Reading
