By Julie Urbanik
As Julie Urbanik vividly illustrates, non-human animals are critical to our day-by-day human lives. We consume them, put on them, dwell with them, paintings them, scan on them, attempt to retailer them, smash them, abuse them, struggle them, hunt them, purchase and promote them, love them, and hate them. Placing Animals is the 1st publication to compile the ancient improvement of the sector of animal geography with a accomplished survey of ways geographers research animals at the present time. Urbanik offers readers with a radical knowing of the connection among animal geography and the bigger animal stories undertaking, an appreciation of the numerous geographies of human-animal interactions all over the world, and perception into how animal geography is either difficult and contributing to the main fields of human and nature-society geography. during the topic of the position of position in shaping the place and why human-animal interactions take place, the chapters in flip discover the background of animal geography and our unique relationships in the house, on farms, within the context of work, within the wider tradition, and within the wild.
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How does the broad field of animal studies differ from the biological sciences’ focus on animals? 3. What are the key points about geography that will be used to frame the discussion of animal geography? Brainstorm examples besides tigers and CAFOs to see what types of geographically based questions you can come up with. ” Reflect on the results. indb 19 7/18/12 8:53 AM 20 Chapter One REFERENCES Beston, Henry. 1992. The Outermost House. New York: Henry Holt. Clottes, Jean, and Valérie Féruglio.
So what we have during the first wave of modern animal geography is a focal emphasis on zoogeography but also an obvious secondary interest in humananimal interactions. THE SECOND WAVE OF ANIMAL GEOGRAPHY By the middle of the twentieth century, fields such as biology and zoology began taking on more and more of the traditional cataloging of animal species, their distributions, and their ecologies. This development left geographers with an interest in animals to begin to focus more on human-animal relations in place and space.
In places, also, its marshes teem with life; and there are birds, swans and the like; and also bustards in great numbers” (Strabo 1988, 107). indb 24 7/18/12 8:53 AM A History of Animal Geography 25 with milk and flesh of all sorts, but particularly the flesh of hogs, both fresh and salted. Their hogs run wild, and they are of exceptional height, boldness, and swiftness; at any rate, it is dangerous for one unfamiliar with their ways to approach them, and likewise, also, for a wolf” (243). What we see here would be repeated over the centuries as explorers and naturalists documented the variety of cultures and environments around the world.