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Editor's Introduction to Society and Animals

Editor's Introduction to Society and Animals 1 Editor's Introduction to Society and Animals Kenneth J. Shapiro When we pause to reflect on it, the continued broad scope, pervasiveness and varied form of animals in our lives is surprising. The dominant image of the modem world is a human-centered and technologically dense landscape. The baying of horses in the streets has long been drowned out by the whirring of motors. Yet our world is still replete with animals in the street, home, nursing home, consulting room, at the "feeder," in the city alley and city park, in the lab, on the farm, in the stream, in the wild.... In addition to these living relations, our lives are saturated with former animals- the animal-based products and byproducts with which we feed, medicate and clothe our bodies. And our thought and language remains suffused with fictional animal- the symbolic animals that provide images and metaphors for our rituals, pastimes, names, fables, character analyses... As social scientists we are interested in how all these animal presences infonn our psychology, sociology and anthropology. The main purpose of Society and Animals is to foster within the social sciences a substantive subfield, animal studies, which will further the understanding of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Society & Animals Brill

Editor's Introduction to Society and Animals

Shapiro, Kenneth J.
Society & Animals , Volume 1 (1): 1 – Jan 1, 1993
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Brill
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© 1993 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1063-1119
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1568-5306
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10.1163/156853093X00091
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1 Editor's Introduction to Society and Animals Kenneth J. Shapiro When we pause to reflect on it, the continued broad scope, pervasiveness and varied form of animals in our lives is surprising. The dominant image of the modem world is a human-centered and technologically dense landscape. The baying of horses in the streets has long been drowned out by the whirring of motors. Yet our world is still replete with animals in the street, home, nursing home, consulting room, at the "feeder," in the city alley and city park, in the lab, on the farm, in the stream, in the wild.... In addition to these living relations, our lives are saturated with former animals- the animal-based products and byproducts with which we feed, medicate and clothe our bodies. And our thought and language remains suffused with fictional animal- the symbolic animals that provide images and metaphors for our rituals, pastimes, names, fables, character analyses... As social scientists we are interested in how all these animal presences infonn our psychology, sociology and anthropology. The main purpose of Society and Animals is to foster within the social sciences a substantive subfield, animal studies, which will further the understanding of the

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