Preliminary Material / Anja Höing and Arieahn Matamonasa Bennett -- The Wild and the Child: The Children-Animal Bond in Talking-Animal Stories / Anja Höing -- Animal Advice: Are You Listening? / Rae Ann Kumelos -- Politics and the Signs of Animal Life: Biosemiotics, Aristotle, and Human-Animal Relations / Ike Sharpless -- On Betrayal: Human-Animal Relationships and Land Conflict in Contemporary Zimbabwe / Nádia Farage -- Relationships, Attitudes and Emotions of Human towards Nonhuman Primates in Indonesia / Julia Keil -- Nature On Demand: Reconstruction of the Trophy Animal in High Fence Hunting Spaces / Melani Nardone -- In the Company of Humans / Paulo Santilli -- Animal Experimentation as a Moral Problem: Against Simplicity / Simone Pollo , Marta Borgi and Augusto Vitale -- A Horse Is a Horse Is a Horse: Changing Ideas in a Diversified Equestrian World / Petra Andersson -- The Animal Stage: The Architecture of Animal Display at Hagenbeck’s Tierpark / Rachel Couper -- Tribal Cultures, Ancient Minds and Modern Science: The Metaphoric Mind and Exploring Animal-Human Relationships / Arieahn Matamonasa-Bennett -- Why Do Therapists Partner with Animals in the Psychotherapeutic Process? A Theoretical Exploration / Tamar Axelrad Levy and Joe Lancia -- Homeless People and Their Animal Companions / Gillian Squirrell.

Relationships between humans and non-human animals are deeply complex and often governed by tensions and paradoxes. Both wild and domestic, metaphorical and real, assistants and adversaries, animals effortlessly bridge cultural and natural spaces and form an integral part of human lives. This volume addresses several currently debated topics in science and culture: How shall we rethink, rebuild and re-envision our relationships with other animals? How do we construct ideas of 'the animal'? How can we negotiate animal interests against our own? In which ways do we make sense - and use - of animals in 'human' cultural spaces? Addressing the non-human animal from the standpoint of various social and cultural constructions from a global and multidisciplinary perspective, the chapters within this volume do not seek to answer these questions, but rather to draw attention to the complexity of the underlying issues and the manifold dimensions of the animal-human bond.

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