Animals and Human Society in Asia: Historical, Cultural and Ethical Perspectives (The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3030243621 ISBN 13: 9783030243623

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

Synopsis

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the different aspects of human-animal interactions in Asia throughout history. With twelve thematically-arranged chapters, it examines the diverse roles that beasts, livestock, and fish ― real and metaphorical--have played in Asian history, society, and culture.
Ranging from prehistory to the present day, the authors address a wealth of topics including the domestication of animals, dietary practices and sacrifice, hunting, the use of animals in war, and the representation of animals in literature and art. Providing a unique perspective on human interaction with the environment, this volume is cross-disciplinary in its reach, offering enriching insights to the fields of animal ethics, Asian studies, world history and more.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"Animal studies is a vibrant field that renews humanities by breaking many barriers. This intense and beautiful volume exemplifies such breaking and renewing, as it connects East-Asian and West-Asian areas and the steppe world in between, and develops an engaged dialogue between archeology, history,religion, visual studies, economics, law, and more."
―Vincent Goossaert, Professor of Daoism and Chinese religions, EPHE, PSL, Paris  
"An ambitious volume, as broad, diverse, and interconnected as Asia. A significant interdisciplinary contribution to the history of human-animal relations."―Aaron Skabelund, Associate Professor of History, Brigham Young University, USA, author of Empire of Dogs: Canines, Japan, and the Making of the Modern Imperial World

About the Author:

Rotem Kowner is Professor of Japanese History and the director of the liberal arts program at the University of Haifa, Israel.

Guy Bar-Oz is Professor of Archaeology and founder of the Laboratory of Archaeozoology at the  Zinman Institute of Archaeology, the University of Haifa, Israel.

Michal Biran is the Max and Sophie Mydans Foundation Professor in the Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and a member of the Israeli Academy of Science and Humanities.

Meir Shahar is a Professor of Chinese studies at Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Gideon Shelach-Lavi is the Louis Freiberg Professor of East Asian Studies and the director of the Institute of Asian and African studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 3030243621
• ISBN 13: 9783030243623
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 470
• Editor: Kowner Rotem, Bar-Oz Guy, Biran Michal, Shahar Meir, Shelach-Lavi Gideon