Description: Explores the evolving and diverse ways in which humans and animals interact, from blood sports to pet keeping.
Brief description: Samantha Hurn is Lecturer in Anthropology, and launched an award winning MA in Anthrozoology at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. She has recently been appointed to the Department of Philosophy and Sociology at the University of Exeter and is now establishing an MA in Anthrozoology there. She has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Wales, Andalusia, South Africa and Swaziland.
Review Quotes: 'A refreshingly novel text for beginning students, as well as stimulating a wider interest in an intelligent discussion of human-animals relations'