Author: Richard W. Bulliet
Translator: Ok-hee Im
Publisher: Alma
Hardcover | 468 pages | 223*152mm
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About This Book
One only has to hear the hair-raising cry of a predatory coyote in a
suburban backyard to know that humanity's relationship to the animal
kingdom has undergone a sea change. From the first caveman to drag home
a woolly mammoth carcass to today's confrontational anti-fur street
demonstrations, human-animal relations have always been, and continue to
be, more intricately entwined than society has comfortably acknowledged.
Bulliet, professor of history at Columbia University, contends that this
elemental interspecies dynamic has so evolved since the dawn of humanity
to now be at a critical turning point. Just as our Victorian-era
predecessors could not envision either the disconnect with which modern
nonvegetarians acknowledge the source of the meat on their tables nor
the extreme humanizing with which contemporary society treats its
companion animals, so, too, will future generations view our present
social, economic, and philosophical behaviors as equally quaint,
self-serving, and, ultimately, destructive. A precisely researched,
logically presented, and candidly intriguing apologia for humankind's
inconsistent relationship with animals. --Carol Haggas
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