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Anthrozoology (also sometimes referred to as human-animal studies) is the multi- and inter-disciplinary study of the many and varied ways in which humans interact with and think about other-than-human animals (henceforth animals). Anthrozoologists hail from a plethora of academic backgrounds and take diverse approaches to their subject, utilizing qualitative, quantitative, ethnological and mixed methods approaches in addition to drawing on literature and theoretical models from across the social sciences, humanities and natural sciences.
This paper is an amalgamation of ideas presented previously and has been updated to acknowledge additional developments in the field since the original dates of publication. See Hurn, Samantha: What's in a name? Anthrozoology, human-animal studies, animal studies or…?, in: Anthropology Today 26 (2010), Issue 3, S. 27-28; Hurn, Samantha: Humans and Other Animals: Human-Animal Interactions in Cross-Cultural Perspective, London 2012.
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Hurn, S. (2015). Anthrozoology: an important subfield in anthropology. In: Hartung, G., Herrgen, M. (eds) Interdisziplinäre Anthropologie. Interdisziplinäre Anthropologie. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-07410-4_13
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