By Nik Taylor, Tania Signal
Making use of principles from post-modernism and post-humanism this booklet demanding situations present methods of puzzling over animals and their relationships with people. together with contributions from around the social sciences the e-book encourages readers to mirror upon taken with no consideration methods of conceptualising human relaitonships with animals. it will likely be of curiosity to these within the extensive box of human-animal stories in addition to these inside so much social technology and arts disciplines together with sociology, anthropology, philosophy and social thought.
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For a start, they have served as walking larders to provide humans with food derived either from their flesh or from their products, like 30 chapter one milk, eggs and honey. Although cultural attitudes towards the consumption of meat have varied enormously, some forms being interdicted by religion, custom, humanitarian values, cultural tastes or personal affection, in postmodern society as in that of prehistoric hunter-gatherers, one of the three primary use values of animals has been the provision of nourishment for humans.
Although cultural attitudes towards the consumption of meat have varied enormously, some forms being interdicted by religion, custom, humanitarian values, cultural tastes or personal affection, in postmodern society as in that of prehistoric hunter-gatherers, one of the three primary use values of animals has been the provision of nourishment for humans. The second of those primary functions was to serve, like other parts of nature, as the raw material for the construction of artefacts. Human ingenuity has found a myriad uses for every part of dead animals.
First, a distinction is made between animals who are outsiders to that community and those who live on the inside. ) or in our midst, as do cockroaches, 38 chapter one pigeons, rats and fleas. Until quite recently, such outsiders tended to be hunted, feared or shunned if defined as ‘pests’ or ‘vermin’, or else ruthlessly over-harvested if regarded as socially useful or commercially exploitable raw material, such as fish, whales, big game or brightly plumaged birds. Like human outsiders, they were killed when possible, avoided when not.