Animals in person
Subtitle: cultural perspectives on human-animal intimacy
By: edited by John Knight.
Contributors: Knight, John, 1960-; European Association of Social Anthropologists. Conference
Edition: English ed.
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Human-animal relationships -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: "Began as a workshop ... which took place at the European  Association of Social Anthropology (EASA) conference held in Krakow, Poland on 27 July 2000"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Care, Order and Usefulness: The Context of the Human-Animal Relationship in a Greek Island Community / Dimitrios Theodossopoulos; title: Person, Place or Pig: Animal Attachments and Human Transactions in New Guinea / Peter D. Dwyer and Monica Minnegal; title: Disciplined Affections: The Making of an English Pack of Foxhounds / Garry Marvin; title: On 'Loving Your Water Buffalo More Than Your Own Mother': Relationships of Animal and Human Care in Nepal / Ben Campbell; title: Loved to Death? Veterinary Visions of Pet-keeping in Modern Dutch Society / Joanna Swabe; title: From Trap to Lap: The Changing Sociogenic Identity of the Rat / Birgitta Edelman; title: The Unbearable Likeness of Being: Children, Teddy Bears and The Sooty Show / Candi Forrest, Laurence Goldman and Michael Emmison; title: The Elephant-Mahout Relationship in India and Nepal: A Tourist Attraction / Lynette A. Hart; title: Loving Leviathan: The Discourse of Whale-watching in Australian Ecotourism /    Adrian Peace; title: Enchanting Dolphins: An Analysis of Human-Dolphin Encounters / Veronique Servais; title: Feeding Mr Monkey: Cross-species Food 'Exchange' in Japanese Monkey Parks /    John Knight; title: Anthropomorphism or Egomorphism? The Perception of Non-human Persons by Human Ones / Kay Milton.