Animals and Modern Cultures: A Sociology of Human-Animal Relations in Modernity / Edition 1

by Alex Franklin

Overview

Animals and Modern Culture investigates the dramatic transformation of relationships between humans and animals in the 20th century. The book, focusing on social change and animals, is concerned with how humans relate to animals and how this has changed and why.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761956235
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	09/20/1999
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.46(d)

About the Author

Adrian is a prolific researcher, writer and presenter, and is currently editor of SAGE's HSS journal Tourist Studies. He has written numerous articles for a range of journals, from Journal of Sociology and Body and Society to International Review for the Sociology of Sport and Environment and Planning D. He has written three previous book for SAGE: Tourism: An Introduction (2003), Nature and Social Theory (2002) and Animals and Modern Culture (1999).

He also presents a television show called The Collectors (ABC, Australia).

Table of Contents

Introduction
‘Good To Think with': Theories of Human-Animal Relations in Modernity
From Modernity to Postmodernity
The Zoological Gaze
Pets and Modern Cultures
Naturalizing Sports
Hunting and Angling in Modernity
Animals and the Agricultural Industry
From Farming to Animal Protein Production
Animal Foodways
Animal Rites