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Introduction—Animal Encounters: Contact, Interaction and Relationality

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Animal Encounters

Part of the book series: Cultural Animal Studies ((CAS,volume 4))

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How do human and non-human animals interact? Where do encounters take place? How are those encounters represented in literature and the arts, and performed in socio-cultural practices? The present volume concentrates on these topics by focusing on the concept of ‘encounter’. Issues, problems and questions of contact and interaction between human and non-human animals that are addressed in philosophy, literature, the fine arts and socio-cultural practices are discussed systematically and in a historically comprehensive manner in the contributions of this volume within a cultural studies perspective. The volume argues that the concept of ‘encounter’ has its place as a distinct and meaningful category next to theories of agency that recently have dominated the field of Human Animal Studies.

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Böhm, A., Ullrich, J. (2019). Introduction—Animal Encounters: Contact, Interaction and Relationality. In: Böhm, A., Ullrich, J. (eds) Animal Encounters. Cultural Animal Studies, vol 4. J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-04939-1_1

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