Book Details
The multiple ways in which people relate to animals provide a revealing window through which to examine a culture. Western cultures tend to view animals either as pets or food, and often overlook the vast number of roles that they may play within a culture and in social life more generally: their use in medicine, folk traditions and rituals. This comprehensive and very readable study focuses on Malawi people and their rich and varied relationship with animalsfrom hunting through to their use as medicine. More broadly, through a rigorous and detailed study the author provides insights which show how the people's relationship to their world manifests itself not strictly in social relations, but just as tellingly in their relationships with animalsthat, in fact, animals constitute a vital role in social relations. While significantly advancing classic African ethnographic studies, this book also incorporates current debates in a wide range of disciplinesfrom anthropology through to gender studies and ecology.
Author Biography: Brian Morris is Professor of Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, University of London..
- Binding Paperback
- Author/s Morris, Brian
- ISBN13 9781859732250
- ISBN10 1859732259
- Pages 264
- Published 2000
The power of animals (An ethnography)
- Author Brian Morris
- Publisher BERG PUBLISHERS
- ISBN 9781859732250
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