Original scientific paper
Memoirs of cross-species friendship or how cats' and humans' lives are interwoven
Marija Geiger Zeman
; Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar
Zdenko Zeman
; Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar
Abstract
Despite the fact that humans´ and animals´ lives have been interwoven for thousands of years in myriad and complex ways, social sciences have not recognized the importance of animal issues. Socio-cultural (re)interpretation of animals is particulary interesting and inspirative (DeMello 2012). Cats have come a long way from being worshipped in ancient Egyptian temples through medieval demonization to recent position as a family member in households around the world and icon in pop-culture imagery. The analysis is focused on presentations and interpretations of human-cat relationship in books A Street Cat Named Bob (2014) by James Bowen and Dewey (2012) by Vicki Myron.
Keywords
cats; the companion animal; cross-species friendship; sociological animal studies; sociology of literature
Hrčak ID:
230326
URI
Publication date:
18.12.2019.
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