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Melancholia's Dog
Alice A. Kuzniar
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Description for Melancholia's Dog
Hardcover. Num Pages: 216 pages, 13 halftones. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 164 x 21. Weight in Grams: 498.
Bred to provide human companionship, dogs eclipse all other species when it comes to reading the body language of people. Dog owners hunger for a complete rapport with their pets; in the dog the fantasy of empathetic resonance finds its ideal. But cross-species communication is never easy. Dog love can be a precious but melancholy thing.
An attempt to understand human attachment to the canis familiaris in terms of reciprocity and empathy, Melancholia’sDog tackles such difficult concepts as intimacy and kinship with dogs, the shame associated with identification with their suffering, and the reasons for the profound mourning over their ... Read more
Bred to provide human companionship, dogs eclipse all other species when it comes to reading the body language of people. Dog owners hunger for a complete rapport with their pets; in the dog the fantasy of empathetic resonance finds its ideal. But cross-species communication is never easy. Dog love can be a precious but melancholy thing.
An attempt to understand human attachment to the canis familiaris in terms of reciprocity and empathy, Melancholia’sDog tackles such difficult concepts as intimacy and kinship with dogs, the shame associated with identification with their suffering, and the reasons for the profound mourning over their ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226465784
SKU
V9780226465784
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99-1
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