Here’s “a potential resource for teaching”:http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/55869?fulltext=true — often times when I begin to ask my students about race and genetics one or two in the class will analogize human racial difference to dog breeds. At first I thought this was shocking, but over time I found it was a useful response — most students imagined [...]
Not much of a post, but I thought I’d break radio silence on this blog to post a link to this “anthropological analysis of companion parrots”:http://www.psyeta.org/sa/sa11.4/anderson.shtml as part of my longstanding (and long dormant!) interest in human-animal interactions which I found via “Tracks”:http://timothyjpmason.com/wordpress/. In other news I’m working my way — slowly — through Rebecca [...]
You know, people obsessed with their pets have generated an infinite amount of websites about them, and almost none of them are actually very good. Some are, though. Like this picture of “St. Francis of Assisi and a Corgi”:http://www.mycraftshowroom.com/8×10-stfrancis/8×10-StFrancis-Corgi-Pem-new.jpg. “Obeythepurebreed.com”:http://www.obeythepurebreed.com also gets points for effort. Despite being derivative of the mighty Gapersblock web hipster aesthetic, [...]
Hard to fire a gun “with flippers”:http://scotlandtoday.scottishtv.co.uk/content/default.asp?page=s1_1_1&newsid=8631.
My paper for Fashioning Anthropology: Papers in Honor of Gail Kelly is now available for download on this website under the ‘writings’ section of the sidebar. It’s entitled “Shooting Snowy Was The Toughest Job I Ever Had: The Role of Dogs in First Contact and Anthropological Theory”:http://alex.golub.name/res/shootingsnowy.pdf. It’s a bit of a romp and (as [...]
I’m in the process of brushing up my ‘transgenic relations’ (what we used to call ‘human-animal relations’ and before that, ‘man-animal’ relationships, a term which fell out of favor because it was sexist and eerily reminiscent of Doug Spink) literature, and recently ran across “Eugene Guribye’s Ph.D. thesis on human-animal relations in the galapagos”:http://www.ub.uib.no/elpub/2000/h/708001/. If [...]