Read The Animal's Companion: People & Their Pets, a 26,000-Year Love Story

The Animal's Companion: People & Their Pets, a 26,000-Year Love Story

Jacky Colliss Harvey

4.9/5 (20033 ratings)

Description:The animal-human connection has thrived throughout history. THE ANIMAL'S COMPANION is a fascinating exploration of our universal human need for the companionship of animals--dogs, cats, horses, birds, iguanas, and more.The earliest evidence of a human and a pet can be traced to as far as France 26,000 years ago, where a boy and his "canid" (dog) took a walk through a cave. Their foot and paw prints were preserved together on the muddy cave floor, and smoke from the torch the boy carried was left on the walls, allowing archaeologists to carbon-date their journey. And, so it is, from these pre-historic days all the way up to the present, that we humans have an innate and undeniable need to live in the close company of animals.In THE ANIMAL'S COMPANION, acclaimed social anthropologist and author of A History of the Redhead, Jacky Colliss Harvey turns her keen eye for cultural investigation and her prodigious story-telling skills to the history of animals as our companions in every-day life and in adversity, the development of breeding, our need to accessorize our pets, animals in children's stories (from Black Beauty to Lassie), our desire to mourn our pets and send them to the afterlife, and when, how, and why all of these attitudes have developed over time. Along the way Colliss Harvey regales us with story after wonderful story of famous, endearing, and sometimes eccentric pet owners throughout history.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Animal's Companion: People & Their Pets, a 26,000-Year Love Story. To get started finding The Animal's Companion: People & Their Pets, a 26,000-Year Love Story, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: 304

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 0316466182

Description: The animal-human connection has thrived throughout history. THE ANIMAL'S COMPANION is a fascinating exploration of our universal human need for the companionship of animals--dogs, cats, horses, birds, iguanas, and more.The earliest evidence of a human and a pet can be traced to as far as France 26,000 years ago, where a boy and his "canid" (dog) took a walk through a cave. Their foot and paw prints were preserved together on the muddy cave floor, and smoke from the torch the boy carried was left on the walls, allowing archaeologists to carbon-date their journey. And, so it is, from these pre-historic days all the way up to the present, that we humans have an innate and undeniable need to live in the close company of animals.In THE ANIMAL'S COMPANION, acclaimed social anthropologist and author of A History of the Redhead, Jacky Colliss Harvey turns her keen eye for cultural investigation and her prodigious story-telling skills to the history of animals as our companions in every-day life and in adversity, the development of breeding, our need to accessorize our pets, animals in children's stories (from Black Beauty to Lassie), our desire to mourn our pets and send them to the afterlife, and when, how, and why all of these attitudes have developed over time. Along the way Colliss Harvey regales us with story after wonderful story of famous, endearing, and sometimes eccentric pet owners throughout history.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Animal's Companion: People & Their Pets, a 26,000-Year Love Story. To get started finding The Animal's Companion: People & Their Pets, a 26,000-Year Love Story, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

The Animal's Companion: People & Their Pets, a 26,000-Year Love Story

The Animal's Companion: People & Their Pets, a 26,000-Year Love Story

More Books

Red: A History of the Redhead

Red: A History of the Redhead

Walking Pepys’s London (Armchair Traveller)

Walking Pepys’s London (Armchair Traveller)

The Wanton Road (Fiskardo's War Book 4)

The Wanton Road (Fiskardo's War Book 4)

Ziemlich beste Gefährten: Vom Menschen und seinen Tieren

Ziemlich beste Gefährten: Vom Menschen und seinen Tieren

Thoughtlines: Walking in Writer's Suffolk

Thoughtlines: Walking in Writer's Suffolk

Getting My Hands Dirty

Getting My Hands Dirty