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Book SynopsisLiving with Animals is a collection of imagined animal guidesa playful and accessible look at different human-animal relationships around the world. Anthropologists and their co-authors have written accounts of how humans and animals interact in labs, in farms, in zoos, and in African forests, among other places. Modeled after the classic A World of Babies, an edited collection of imagined Dr. Spock manuals from around the worldWith Animals focuses on human-animal relationships in their myriad forms.
This is ethnographic fiction for those curious about how animals are used for a variety of different tasks around the world. To be sure, animal guides are not a universal genre, so Living with Animals offers an imaginative solution, doing justice to the ways details about animals are conveyed in culturally specific ways by adopting a range of voices and perspectives. How we capitalize on animals, how we live with them, and how humans attempt to control the unt
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Just as animals themselves have long been good for humans to think with, Living with Animals provides readers with a rich set of materials to think about as we work to bring animals into the empirical and ethical worlds we convey through our ethnographic writing.
* American Ethnologist *
Table of ContentsWith Animals: An Introduction
Part One: Fieldwork
1. Yuendumu Dog Tales
2. How to Build Rapport with Cats and Humans
3. The Perils of Deference: How Not to Habituate Spotted Hyenas in an Ethiopian Town
4. How to Study Chimpanzees That Are Terrified of You: Adventures in Ethnoprimatology in West Africa
Part Two: Communication
5. Walking with Dogs: Sharing Meaning, Sensation, and Inspiration across the Species Boundary
6. Working with a Service Dog in the United States
7. How to Protect Yourself from the Dead with Cattle
8. How to Release Viruses from Birds: A Field Guide for Virus Hunters, Buddhist Monks, and Birdwatchers
Part Three: Commodities
9. Oysterous
10. How to Act Industrial around Industrial Pigs
11. Making Babies with Cows
12. How to Make a Horse Have an Orgasm
Part 4: Science
13. Healing with Leeches
14. How to Be a Systematist
15. Becoming a Research Rodent
16. The Business: A Ferret's Guied to the Lab Life
Part Five: Conservation
17. Read, Respond, Rescue
18. How to Care for a Park with Birds: Birdwatchers' Ecologies in Buenos Aires
19. Introducing Zoo Gorillas
