Dogs don't speak". A Consideration of the Flow of Knowledge between Dogs, Anthropologist and Humans
Dogs don't speak". A Consideration of the Flow of Knowledge between Dogs, Anthropologist and Humans

Summary/Abstract: Within anthropological studies of the human-animal relation much has been written about the objectification of animals in “Euro-American” ontology and the need to reconsider this approach. Yet, although “Euro-American” ontologies on the humananimal relation have been the focus of critique, I suggest that the question of how we might reconsider this issue is still pertinent. In this article, I offer an ethnographic account of dog owner narratives on the dog-owner relation in Croatia. Through a consideration of these narratives in terms of the “flow of knowledge” (cf. Strathern 2004), I propose that knowledge between humans and animals is already flowing but it has just not been made visible as such.

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