Samantha Hurn
- Affiliation: University of Wales
Samantha Hurn is Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David where she convenes an award-winning MA programme in Anthrozoology. She has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Wales, Andalusia, South Africa and Swaziland.
Books by Samantha Hurn
Humans and Other Animals
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Human-Animal Interactions
Samantha Hurn
Humans and Other Animals is about the myriad and evolving ways in which humans and animals interact, the divergent cultural constructions of humanity and animality found around the world, and individual experiences of other animals. Case studies from a wide range of cultural contexts are discussed, and readers are invited to engage with a diverse range of human-animal interactions including blood sports (such as hunting, fishing and bull-fighting), pet-keeping and ‘petishism’, eco… (more information)