Pigs and Humans
Subtitle: 10,000 Years of Interaction
Contributors: Umberto Albarella (Editor); Keith Dobney (Editor); Anton Ervynck (Editor); Peter Rowley-Conwy (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; OUP Oxford; Oxford University Press
Published: January 11, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780199207046
Subjects: Animals & society; History of specific subjects; Social Science; Pets; Sociology; Anthropology - Cultural; Archaeology; General; Social Science / Archaeology; Animal Rights; Sociology - General; History; Human-animal relationships; Swine
Description: "Pigs and Humans brings together some of the key scholars whose research is highlighting the role wild and domestic pigs have played in human societies around the world over the last 10,000 years. The 22 contributors cover a broad and diverse range of temporal, geographical, and topical themes, grounded within the disciplines of archaeology, zoology, anthropology, and biology, as well as art history and history. They explore such areas as evolution and taxonomy, domestication and husbandry, ethnography, and ritual and art, and present some of the latest theories and methodological techniques."--Jacket.