Academic Press, 2018. — 535 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-809913-1. This book the first book about this discipline, providing a discussion on key themes on human-animal interactions and their implications, along with recent major advances in research. Humans share the world with a bewildering variety of other animals, and have interacted with them in different ways. This variety of...
Athabasca University Press, 2008. — 360 p. At the place known as Head-Smashed-In in southwestern Alberta, Aboriginal people practiced a form of group hunting for nearly 6,000 years before European contact. The large communal bison traps of the Plains were the single greatest food-getting method ever developed in human history. Hunters, working with their knowledge of the land...
Columbia University Press, 2005. — 265 p. Richard W. Bulliet has long been a leading figure in the study of human-animal relations, and in his newest work, Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers, he offers a sweeping and engaging perspective on this dynamic relationship from prehistory to the present. By considering the shifting roles of donkeys, camels, cows, and other domesticated...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 318 p. — (Studies in Environment and History). In the British territories of the North American Great Plains, food figured as a key trading commodity after 1780, when British and Canadian fur companies purchased ever-larger quantities of bison meats and fats (pemmican) from plains hunters to support their commercial expansion across the...
Texas A&M University Press, 2016. — 344 p. The near disappearance of the American bison in the nineteenth century is commonly understood to be the result of over-hunting, capitalist greed, and all but genocidal military policy. This interpretation remains seductive because of its simplicity; there are villains and victims in this familiar cautionary tale of the American...
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2023. — 1198 p. — eISBN: 978-2-503-60613-2. Bears have, throughout human history, been admired and feared by humans in equal measure, with an interrelationship between the two species identifiable from pre-modern times through a wealth of material items, as well as from cult sites, sacral remains, images, and written sources. This unique...
University of Chicago Press, 2019. — 288 p. As much as dogs, cats, or any domestic animal, horses exemplify the vast range of human-animal interactions. Horses have long been deployed to help with a variety of human activities - from racing and riding to police work, farming, warfare, and therapy - and have figured heavily in the history of natural sciences, social sciences,...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1995. — 244 p. In this broad survey of buffalo from prehistoric times to the twentieth century, Francis Haines focuses on the relationship between buffalo and the Plains Indians. He describes in detail how the Indians utilized the buffalo for clothing, bedding, and various tools and as their principal source of food. The Indians hunted buffalo...
Cambridge University Press, 2001. - 220 p. The Destruction of the Bison explains the decline of the North American bison population from an estimated 30 million in 1800 to fewer than 1000 a century later. In this wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study, Andrew C. Isenberg argues that the cultural and ecological encounter between Native Americans and Euroamericans in the Great...
Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — (The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series) — xxxvii, 433 p. : 14 b/w illustrations, 27 illustrations in colour - Examines the diverse roles that beasts, livestock, and fish have played in Asian history, society, and culture - Provides a crucial Asian perspective on human interactions with the environment - Interdisciplinary in...
Routledge, 2002. — 240 p. Modern society is beginning to re-examine its whole relationship with animals and the natural world. Until recently issues such as animal welfare and environmental protection were considered the domain of small, idealistic minorities. Now, these issues attract vast numbers of articulate supporters who collectively exercise considerable political...
Illustrated by Daniel P. Metz. — Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2010. (Reprint edition). — (A Wildlife Management Institute Book). — 208 p. In this lavishly illustrated volume Richard E. McCabe, Bart W. O'Gara and Henry M. Reeves explore the fascinating relationship of pronghorn with people in early America, from prehistoric evidence through the Battle of Little...
Academic Press, 2018. — 528 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-805247-1. This book provides a solid, scientific, research-based background to advance understanding of how animals impact humans. As a resource for both science and non-science majors (including students planning to major in or studying animal science, pre-veterinary medicine, animal behavior, conservation biology, ecotoxicology,...
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