Cat People: Human–cat Interrelatedness In The Cat Fancy (Multispecies Encounters)
by Emily Stone (Anthrozoology)(Author)
Formats
Paperback/English
USD 59.00
Description
"This book examines the social world of the cat fancy, or the leisure activity of breeding and exhibiting pedigree cats. Based on multispecies ethnographic fieldwork and interviews in the United Kingdom, it explores the process and performance of exhibiting cats at shows, the breeding practices and discourses integral to the creation of pedigree breeds, and the relations that these practices generate between human guardians, the pedigree cat population and non-pedigree cats. Through observation
