Cornell University Press
Living with Animals: Bonds Across Species
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- Natalie Porter
- Cornell University Press
- Hardcover
- 9781501724817
- 9.02 X 5.98 X 0.75 inches
- 1.29 pounds
- Science > Life Sciences - Zoology - General
- English
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Living with Animals is a collection of imagined animal guides--a 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 world--With 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 untamable nature around them are all considered by the authors of this wild read.
If you have ever experienced a moment of what if curiosity--what is it like to be a gorilla in a zoo, to work in a pig factory farm, to breed cows and horses, this book is for you. A light-handed and light-hearted approach to a fascinating and nuanced subject, Living with Animals suggests many ways in which we can and do coexist with our non-human partners on Earth.
Author Bio
Kellogg Institute Faculty Fellow Natalie Porter is Assistant Professor of Anthropology. Porter is a medical anthropologist specializing in multispecies anthropology and the anthropology of science, technology, and medicine. Her research explores how pandemic disease threats are transforming scientific knowledge and public health practice worldwide.
Natalie is currently writing a book entitled, Viral Economies: An Ethnography of Bird Flu in Vietnam, which traces several bird flu interventions from their inception in multinational policy arenas through to their implementation in poultry farming communities. The book explores the exchange of resources at different sites of bird flu intervention in order to signal emerging tensions between the resolutely “public” ethos of global health and the increasingly proprietary devices of bio-security. Natalie is also carrying out a research project that analyses scientists’ ongoing efforts to regulate experiments on highly pathogenic viruses.
Before joining the faculty at Notre Dame, Natalie held positions at the University of Freiburg and the University of New Hampshire. She was also a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Science, Innovation & Society at the University of Oxford.
Research Interests
Medical anthropology; science and technology studies; multispecies ethnography; biopolitics; property; pandemics
A book project, “Viral Economies: Bird Flu Control and Global Health Experiments beyond the Human,” traces bird flu interventions from the multinational policy arena to their implementation in Vietnamese farming communities, exploring tensions between the “public” ethos of global health and the proprietary devices inherent in livestock economies and bio-security regimes. Other research analyses scientists’ efforts to regulate experiments on pathogenic viruses.
Source: University of Notre Dame
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