Animal Studies: An Introduction

by Paul Waldau

Book Overview

Animal studies is a growing interdisciplinary field that incorporates scholarship from public policy, sociology, religion, philosophy, and many other areas. In essence, it seeks to understand how humans study and conceive of other-than-human animals, and how these conceptions have changed over time, across cultures, and across different ways of thinking. This interdisciplinary introduction to the field boldly and creatively foregrounds the realities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199827036
• ISBN13: 9780199827039
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.9" x 10.0"