Essays about: "human-animal relationships"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words human-animal relationships.

1. 1. Dances with Deer: The Deadly Entanglements of Becoming Deer in Jægersborg Dyrehave

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

   Author : Jorinde Bosma; [2023]
   Keywords : deer; performativity; agential realism; becoming-with; human animal relationships; multispecies ethnography; posthumanism; choreographies; materiality; biopower; Cultural Sciences;

   Abstract : In the small Danish nature park of Jægersborg Dyrehave, there live over two thousand deer. During their lives, they become encounters for visitors, managers of nature, targets to be culled, meat to be eaten, and more. In this thesis, I explore what it means to be deer in Dyrehaven. READ MORE

3. 2. Pigeon Tales : An Exploration of Humanimal Entanglement in Urban Spaces

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

   Author : Anna Hoekman; [2023]
   Keywords : Pigeons; humanimal relations; animal rights; posthumanism; companion species; historical ecology;

   Abstract : This thesis is an exploration of the humanimal entanglements between humans and pigeons in the urban setting. It traces human-pigeon histories from pigeons’ domestication forward to the contemporary conceptions of pigeons as a pest animal. READ MORE

4. 3. Equine welfare assessment : assessing equine welfare using positive parameters

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Biosystems and Technology (from 130101)

   Author : Heidi Nevala; [2023]
   Keywords : human-horse relation; natural living conditions; social bond analysis; time budget;

   Abstract : This thesis examines positive parameters for assessing horse welfare. The purpose of the study was to examine what positive welfare parameters there are, and if they are valid or not. Data has been collected through a literature review. Findings suggest that behavioural indicators like yawning, vacuum chewing and play are not valid. READ MORE

5. 4. Histories of Value: Following Deer Populations Through the English Landscape from 1800 to the Present Day

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

   Author : Holly Marriott Webb; [2019]
   Keywords : Assemblages; Deer; Deer population; England; Hunting; Landscape; Making killable; Moots; Multispecies; Nativist paradigm; Olwig; Pests; Place; Trash Animals; Tsing; United Kingdom; Wildlife management;

   Abstract : Imagining the English landscape as an assemblage entangling deer and people throughout history, this thesis explores how changes in deer population connect to the ways deer have been valued from 1800 to the present day. Its methods are mixed, its sources are conversations – human voices in the ongoing historical negotiations of the multispecies body politic, the moot of people, animals, plants and things which shapes and orders the landscape assemblage. READ MORE

6. 5. Animals in burial contexts : an investigation of Norse rituals and human-animal relationships during the Vendel Period and Viking Age in Uppland, Sweden

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

   Author : Hannah Strehlau; [2018]
   Keywords : human-animal relationships; burial ritual; Scandinavia; Vendel Period; Viking Age;

   Abstract : The deposition of animals in graves was an essential aspect of burial practice in Scandinavia during the Vendel Period and Viking Age (550–1050 AD). While this rite occurs in many different regions, it is most clearly observed in the boat-graves from the famous cemeteries in Swedish Uppland, such as Vendel and Valsgärde, as well as in a number of high-status cremation graves. READ MORE