Horse Breeds and Human Society Purity Identity and the Making of the Modern Horse
Brand: Routledge
Description
This book demonstrates how horse breeding is entwined with human societies and identities. It explores issues of lineage purity and status by exploring interconnections between animals and humans. The quest for purity in equine breed reflects and evolves alongside human subjectivity shaped by categories of race gender class region and nation. Focusing on various horse breeds from the Chincoteague Pony to Brazilian Crioulo and the Arabian horse each chapter in this collection considers how human and animal identities are shaped by practices of breeding and categorizing domesticated animals. Bringing together different historical geographical and disciplinary perspectives this book will appeal to academics as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of human-animal studies sociology environmental studies cultural studies history and literature. | Horse Breeds and Human Society Purity Identity and the Making of the Modern Horse
