The relational horse : : how frameworks of communication, care, politics and power reveal and conceal equine selves / / edited by Gala Argent and Jeannette Vaught.
Human-horse relationships take the central place in this edited collection examining the horse’s perspective by asking: How are human-equine relationships communicated, enacted, understood, encouraged, and restricted? The contributors apply varied disciplinary methods as they emphasize comprehending...
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| Superior document: | Human-Animal Studies ; 24 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Human-Animal Studies ;
24. Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2022. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (236 pages) |
| Notes: | The Relational Horse explores the possibilities of including the horse’s perspective into the study of human-horse relationships. Case studies from across a range of time periods, activities, and disciplines provide fresh ways to understand horses, themselves, in relationships with humans. |
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Table of Contents:
- Gala Argent Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: Humans and Horses in the Relational Arena / Gala Argent and Jeannette Vaught
- part 1
- Relationships, Communication, and Connection
- 1 Synchrony or Dominance? Equine Social Relations in Feral and Domestic Horses / Lucy Rees
- 2 Can You Hear Me (Yet)?—Rhetorical Horses, Trans-Species Communication, and Interpersonal Attunement / Gala Argent
- 3 Reining-in the Vital Powers of Horses / Stephen Smith
- 4 Ceremony and Psychoanalytic Thought A Theoretical Framework for Exploring Horse-Human Relationships and Connection / Joseph J. Lancia
- part 2
- Attributions of Equine Subjectivity and Agency
- 5 “The Steed Knew Well His Master Was Slain” Human-Horse Relationships in the Age of Heroes—the Scandinavian Iron Age / Kristin Armstrong Oma
- 6 Barn Banter An Exploration of Anthropomorphism and ‘Equine-o-morphism’ as Agency / Dona Lee Davis, Anita Maurstad and Sarah Dean
- 7 “Horses are Like Babies” Work and Skill in the Care of Racehorses / Rebecca Richart
- part 3
- Sex, Gender, and Exploitation
- 8 Mareitude Misogyny in the Horse World / Julia Johnson
- 9 Is it Sex if the Veterinarian Does the Work? The Problem of Pleasure in Multispecies Sexual Labor / Jeannette Vaught
- 10 Believing Ginger Revisiting Black Beauty During #MeToo / Angela Hofstetter
- part 4
- Personhood, Property, and the Interspecies Family
- 11 Negotiating Power, Personhood & (In)equality in Elite Horse‐Rider Relationships / Rachel Hogg
- 12 How Horses Matter in Eastern Mongolia Cross-Breeding, Gaited Horses and Relationships with the Land on the 21st Century Steppe / Robin Irvine
- 13 Horses as Healers Shifting Paradigms and Ethics in Equine Assisted Therapies / Arieahn Matamonasa Bennett
- Afterword Moving Human-Equine Studies Forward, with Horses / Jeannette Vaught and Gala Argent
- Index.