Pick of the month October 2002

Pick of the Month (October 2002)

People-animal interactions concern anthropologists. Animals can be important as pets, food, or for ritual purposes. As "Pick of the Month" AnthroBase presents an article on tourism on the Galapagos Islands and an essay on the Danish branch of the Animal Liberation Front. "Do They Bite?" An Anthropological Study of Man-Animal Interactions on Galapagos Guribye, Eugene (2000) Guribye examines transgenic social relations between humans and other animals on the Galapagos Islands. She argues that animals as actors in interactions with humans influence the relationship. According to Guribye, exploring classification systems and symbolic representations of animals is not sufficient if the aim is to understand the relationships between humans and animals. She therefore views the animals on Galapagos, who are examined so closely by the tourists, as life-forms that have their own ways of perceiving of and orienting in their environment, and whose movements and emotional expressions have to be interpreted by the human part in the interactions. *Det farlige og det latterlige. En analyse av organisastionen Dyrenes Befrielsesfront* med fokus på modstand og flertydighed Bendtsen, Anna (2000) Bendtsen studies animal rights activists in Denmark. She looks at the media's coverage of the organization's protests and sometimes illegal actions and on how the organization works to change the public opinion and market their vegan ideology. Bendtsen points out that the organization is both ridiculed and described as dangerous in Danish media. The organization's main focus is their message and not the nature of their actions. The above paper by Anna Bendtsen has now been replaced by her MA thesis, which discusses the same material in far greater depth, and touches on most of the issues in the paper: Det uspiselige dyr. Opfattelser af dyr, mad og grænser for det menneskelige blandt veganere i Danmark og Sverige** Bendtsen, Anna (2002) For more texts on man-animal interactions see our collection of texts under the theme: Animals