Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Räsänen, Tuomas

Title Shared Lives of Humans and Animals : Animal Agency in the Global North
Published Milton : Taylor and Francis, 2017

Copies

Description 1 online resource (229 pages)
Series Routledge Human-Animal Studies Series
Routledge human-animal studies series.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Figures; Tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Notes; Bibliography; Part I: Co-Living Individuals; Chapter 1: Whose Agency? Humans and Dogs in Training ; Introduction; Dogs and Agency: A Theoretical Background; Data and Methodology; Dog Sports as Context; In Search of Agency: Humans and Dogs in Cooperation; The Animality of the Agency: "A Dog Is a Dog"; Conclusions: The Tensions in Agency; Notes; Bibliography; Research Materials; Literature
Chapter 2: Human and Non-Human Agency in Icelandic Film: Of Horses and MenIntroduction; Animal Agency and Representation in Film and the Media; Human and Non-Human Performance in Of Horses and Men; Human Folly and Equine Vision; Non-Human Agency and the Icelandic Landscape; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 3: Horses as Co-Constructors of Knowledge in Contemporary Finnish Equestrian Culture; Tacit Knowledge and Horses; Interaction and Interpretation; Reading the Horse; The Horse Constructing Expertise; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Research Materials; Literature
Chapter 4: Living with Horses: Horse Agency in Human-Horse Cohabitation in Nineteenth-Century Finnish Swidden Culture Introduction; The Research Material; The Horse in the Worldview of Swidden Cultivators; Horses Living inside the House; Horses' Agency; Changing Conceptions about Domestic Animals at the Turn of the Century; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Ethnographic and Folklore Materials; Literature; Chapter 5: Spectacles of Modern Companionship: Men, Dogs and Early Finnish Dog Shows ; Introduction; Sharing Agency and History; Protagonists in Helsinki; At the Exhibition; Conclusion
AcknowledgemtentNotes; Bibliography; Archival Sources; Newspapers and Magazines; Literature; Part II: Interspecies Communities; Chapter 6: Case Study of a Changing Human-Animal Relationship: Wild Rabbits in Britain from the Nineteenth Century to the Onset of Myxomatosis; The Long-Term Increase in the Rabbit Population; The First World War and the Post-War Depression; The Impact of the Second World War: From Food Surpluses to Food Shortages; The Post-War Period and the Impact of Myxomatosis; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Archival Sources; Newspapers and Magazines; Literature
Chapter 7: Does a Dead Wild Animal Have Agency? The White-Tailed Eagle as a Catalyst for an Ideational Revolution in FinlandIntroduction; Fish Eaten and Farm Animals Stolen; Toxic Eagle Bodies; The Symbol of the Contaminated Environment; Eagles as Agents in a World of Environmental Crises; Acknowledgements; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 8: Cosmological Changes: Shifts in Human-Fish Relationships in Alaska's Bering Strait Region; Introduction; Earlier Beliefs about Fish; Contemporary Beliefs about Fish; Beliefs in Practice; Concluding Remarks; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography
Notes Ethnographic Material
Print version record
Form Electronic book
Author Syrjämaa, Taina
ISBN 9781351857109
135185710X