Alligator Song

IF 0.6 4区农林科学 Q4 SOCIOLOGY

Society & Animals Pub Date : 2020-11-03 DOI:10.1163/15685306-12341480

E. V. Meer

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Abstract

Alligators were perceived as dangerous by early settlers in Florida, and they also reflected the untamed and potentially untameable Florida wilderness. By the 20th century, alligator farms capitalized on the thrill of alligator encounters in controlled theme park experiences. Alligators are tamed in the current farm context and valued increasingly for the products that can be derived from their bodies. This anthrozoological investigation of perceptions of Florida alligators explores how farms define alligators and why visitors might accept these particular constructed images of alligators, concluding with a wider view to consider these perceptions of farmed animals in relation to the idea of the nuisance alligator. The discussion is framed by multi-species studies that rest on notions of embodiment and attentiveness, which in this case push the importance of alligator experience and agency to the foreground.

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扬子鳄之歌

短吻鳄被佛罗里达州的早期定居者认为是危险的，它们也反映了佛罗里达州未开垦和可能无法开垦的荒野。到了20世纪，鳄鱼养殖场在受控的主题公园体验中利用了鳄鱼相遇的刺激。短吻鳄在当前的农场环境中被驯服，并因其身体所能衍生的产品而越来越受到重视。这项对佛罗里达短吻鳄感知的人类学调查探讨了农场如何定义短吻鳄，以及为什么游客可能会接受这些特定构建的短吻鳄图像，最后从更广泛的角度考虑了这些对养殖动物的感知与令人讨厌的短吻鳄鱼的想法。这场讨论是由基于具体化和注意力概念的多物种研究构成的，在这种情况下，这将鳄鱼经验和能动性的重要性推向了前台。

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Society & Animals 社会科学-兽医学

CiteScore

1.40

自引率

12.50%

发文量

审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Society & Animals publishes studies that describe and analyze our experiences of non-human animals from the perspective of various disciplines within both the Social Sciences (e.g., psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science) and the Humanities (e.g., history, literary criticism). The journal specifically deals with subjects such as human-animal interactions in various settings (animal cruelty, the therapeutic uses of animals), the applied uses of animals (research, education, medicine and agriculture), the use of animals in popular culture (e.g. dog-fighting, circus, animal companion, animal research), attitudes toward animals as affected by different socializing agencies and strategies, representations of animals in literature, the history of the domestication of animals, the politics of animal welfare, and the constitution of the animal rights movement.