A taxonomy of knowing: animals captive, free-ranging, and at liberty.
Part of a special issue on human-animal relationships. The writer argues that although there exists elaborate and rigorous accounts and descriptions of captive and free-ranging animals, there is very little formal knowledge or, for that matter, acknowledgment of the types of knowledge that people w...
| Published in: | Social Research Vol. 62; pp. 441 - 457 |
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New School for Social Research
Fall 1995
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| Summary: | Part of a special issue on human-animal relationships. The writer argues that although there exists elaborate and rigorous accounts and descriptions of captive and free-ranging animals, there is very little formal knowledge or, for that matter, acknowledgment of the types of knowledge that people who work with animals at liberty have. She maintains that her classifications describe not so much various conditions in which animals in themselves might be but social and grammatical conditions that people are in with the animals. |
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