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Journal articles on the topic "Human-animal relationships – History"
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Ridington, Robin, and Robert A. Brightman. "Grateful Prey: Rock Cree Human-Animal Relationships." Western Historical Quarterly 26, no. 2 (1995): 238. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/970221.
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Hultkrantz, Åke. "Grateful Prey: Rock Cree Human-Animal Relationships. Robert A. Brightman." History of Religions 37, no. 2 (1997): 182–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/463500.
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Brandler, Jacob. "Do “Animals” Have Histor(ies)? Can/Should Humans Know Them? A Heuristic Reframing of Animal-Human Relationships." Journal of Animal Ethics 12, no. 2 (2022): 148–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/21601267.12.2.05.
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Abstract The Western history discipline has recently experienced a growing appreciation of animals as subjects of historical concern, part of what has been described as the “animal turn” in the humanities. While briefly examining some historiographical points related to this burgeoning trend, this article looks to the question of whether animals have history itself as a device to reframe the relationship humans have with both animals and history. Through this process, this article highlights how respecting the unknown possibility and the possibility of the unknown history from the animal perspective recasts the inquiry into “history” as a parochial human endeavor, entangled in the limits of human knowledge, perception, and frailty. It is this same human frailty that explains why humans must understand animal history if only from a human perspective—because humans have fundamentally depended on animals for their survival and development in their own history. Taking these points together, this article asserts that appreciating the existence (and weakness) of the human lens gives new meaning and a sense of humility to the inquiry into animal history, such as how animal history may be better understood in the plural (“histories”), how humans might be freed from universal history and human exceptionalism, and how this humility encourages more ethical treatment of animals.
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Mulcock, Jane, and Natalie Lloyd. "Human-Animal Studies in Australia: Current Directions." Society & Animals 15, no. 1 (2007): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853007x169306.
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AbstractIn 2004, Natalie Lloyd and Jane Mulcock initiated the Australian Animals & Society Study Group, a network of social science, humanities and arts scholars that quickly grew to include more than 100 participants. In July 2005, about 50 participants attended the group's 4-day inaugural conference at the University of Western Australia, Perth. Papers in this issue emerged from the conference. They exemplify the Australian academy's work in the fields of History, Population Health, Sociology, Geography, and English and address strong themes: human-equine relationships; management of native and introduced animals; and relationships with other domestic, nonhuman animals—from cats and dogs to cattle. Human-Animal Studies is an expanding field in Australia. However, many scholars, due to funding and teaching concerns, focus their primary research in different domains. All authors in this issue—excepting one—are new scholars in their respective fields. The papers represent the diversity and innovation of recent Australian research on human-animal interactions. The authors look at both past and present, then anticipate future challenges in building an effective network to expand this field of study in Australia.
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Adams, Matthew. "The kingdom of dogs: Understanding Pavlov’s experiments as human–animal relationships." Theory & Psychology 30, no. 1 (2019): 121–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959354319895597.
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The growth of Human–Animal Studies, multi-species, and posthuman scholarship reflects an “animal turn” offering important theoretical, ethical, and methodological challenges to humanities, science, and social science disciplines, though psychology, in particular, has been slow to engage with these developments. This article is the first to apply the conceptual lens of the “animal turn” to Pavlov’s experiments with dogs. It is unique in applying in particular the work of feminist cultural theorist Donna Haraway, to radically reframe the human–animal relationship at the core of these landmark experiments. This original portrait is contrasted with contemporary retellings of those experiments which ignore or are indifferent to the complexities of that relationship. Paying attention to nonhuman others that constitute animal experimentation in psychology, historically, today, and in retellings, is argued to be a vitally important step for psychology today. The analysis provided constitutes a distinctive, radical shift in the way psychology might approach the lives of nonhuman animals, in its own past and present, with far-reaching implications for the future development of psychology.
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Puputti, Anna-Kaisa. "A zooarchaeology of modernizing human–animal relationships in Tornio, northern Finland, 1620–1800." Post-Medieval Archaeology 42, no. 2 (2008): 304–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/174581308x381029.
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Whitley, Cameron. "Exploring the Place of Animals and Human–Animal Relationships in Hydraulic Fracturing Discourse." Social Sciences 8, no. 2 (2019): 61. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci8020061.
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Throughout human history, energy security has been a prominent concern. Historically, animals were used as energy providers and as companions and sentinels in mining operations. While animals are seldom used for these purposes in developed communities today, this legacy of use is likely to have far-reaching consequences for how animals and human–animal relationships are acknowledged in energy development. The US is currently experiencing an energy boom in the form of high volume horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (HVHHF); because animals are the most at risk from this boom, this study uses a thorough content analysis of peer-reviewed HVHHF articles mentioning animals from 2012–2018 to assess how animals and human–animal relationships are discussed. Three dominant article theme classifications emerge: animal-focused articles, animal-observant articles, and animal sentinel articles. Across themes, articles seldom acknowledge the inherent value or the social and psychological importance of animals in human lives; instead, the focus is almost exclusively on the use of animals as sentinels for potential human health risks. Further, what is nearly absent from this body of literature is any social science research. Given that relationships with animals are an integral part of human existence, this study applies environmental justice principles, serving as a call to action for social science scholars to address the impacts of HVHHF on animals and human–animal relationships.
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Beggs, Sharron, and Rob Townsend. "The role of connection in the efficacy of animal-assisted therapies: A scoping review." Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work 33, no. 3 (2021): 34–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol33iss3id891.
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INTRODUCTION: There is an undeniable connection between humans and animals, with the relationship between the two being well documented across the centuries of history and storytelling.METHODS: This article outlines a scoping review of the literature and research exploring the history, efficacy, and currency of animal assisted therapies (AATs) as they have developed in recent decades within human services and social work programmes.FINDINGS AND IMPLICATIONS: Archaeological research suggests a mutualistic relationship has existed between canines and humans dating back 140,000 years evolving to deepened connections between animals and behaviourally modern humans including 15,000 years of animal domestication. These connections have generated relationships where animals both work for and with humans, assuming diverse roles ranging from service animal to companion pet, from livestock to live entertainment, from symbolic idol to science experiment and, as demonstrated in this article, as co-therapist or therapeutic medium in psychotherapeutic, human services and social work practice processes.
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CASSIDY, ANGELA, RACHEL MASON DENTINGER, KATHRYN SCHOEFERT, and ABIGAIL WOODS. "Animal roles and traces in the history of medicine,c.1880–1980." BJHS Themes 2 (2017): 11–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/bjt.2017.3.
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AbstractThis paper argues for the need to create a more animal-centred history of medicine, in which animals are considered not simply as the backdrop for human history, but as medical subjects important in and of themselves. Drawing on the tools and approaches of animal and human–animal studies, it seeks to demonstrate, via four short historical vignettes, how investigations into the ways that animals shaped and were shaped by medicine enables us to reach new historical understandings of both animals and medicine, and of the relationships between them. This is achieved by turning away from the much-studied fields of experimental medicine and public health, to address four historically neglected contexts in which diseased animals played important roles: zoology/pathology, parasitology/epidemiology, ethology/psychiatry, and wildlife/veterinary medicine. Focusing, in turn, on species that rarely feature in the history of medicine – big cats, tapeworms, marsupials and mustelids – which were studied, respectively, within the zoo, the psychiatric hospital, human–animal communities and the countryside, we reconstruct the histories of these animals using the traces that they left on the medical-historical record.
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Mwatwara, Wesley. "Human-Animal Relations and Livestock Disease Management in Postcolonial Zimbabwe, c.1980 to 2022." Global Environment 16, no. 1 (2023): 75–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.3197/ge.2023.160105.
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The history of livestock disease management strategies in colonial Zimbabwe has generally revealed uneven and racialised access to conventional veterinary facilities that favoured white- over black-owned livestock. In light of this context, this article examines the human-animal relationships that emerged in post-colonial Zimbabwe when access to such facilities was liberalised in a new era in which communal livestock owners still had broken interrelations with the state. In articulating this, it also explores factors that precluded communal livestock farmers from raising 'healthy' livestock. Using qualitative methods, it discusses how the postcolonial state failed to provide robust state veterinary services, and demonstrates communal farmers' agency amidst loss to epizootics and enzootics. As this study will show, livestock diseases and the challenges they posed significantly impacted on how humans (communal farmers) determined which animals to raise and how to raise them. It concludes that livestock diseases and the human-animal relationships that emerged out of the quandary posed by the former, had a negative impact on state-communal livestock farmer relationships, and promoted the continued relevance of otherwise officially despised livestock knowledge regimes in Zimbabwe's communal areas.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Human-animal relationships – History"
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Brady, Jocelyn Mary. "Being Human: How Four Animals Forever Changed the Way We Live, What We Believe, and Who We Think We Are." PDXScholar, 2014. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1531.
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Our lives would not be what they are today without animals. From the food we eat, to the clothes we wear, animals provide tangible evidence of their importance every day. But more than that, animals have shaped who we are and what we believe. Often in ways we don't see.
That's what inspired me to write Being Human. This work began as an examination of how humans have altered animals to better match our imaginations and ideals, and too, the way these animals have irrecoverably altered how we live and look at the world. Consider, for example, that before they became physically useful to us in providing meat or skills or companionship, animals were central figures in our stories, mythologies, and religions. All the while, of course, these animals remained both ignorant and at the mercy of whatever we imagined--or needed--them to be.
And what does all of this say about us? What can we learn about ourselves from looking at animals, and more specifically, looking at the way we treat them? In a society where animal flesh comes to us freshly packed and cleanly saran-wrapped, and pets are treated as members of our families, we tend to look at animals as one thing or another. A farm pig is not a companion animal, any more than a cat is a meal-in-waiting. At least not in our culture. We generally see what's convenient or desirable and when things get messy or complicated, we tend to look away. In so doing, we miss the opportunity to clearly see who we really are, what we're capable of, and what, if anything, we might want to change as a result.
I chose four specific animals that show us different sides of ourselves. These beings are both familiar and strange, part of our everyday lives but often only found on the periphery. Each animal symbolizes one of four categories: food, pest, worker and pet. And each connects to a human need: pigs with consumption, pigeons with communication, horses with control and cats with companionship. They are arranged in this order to reflect the deepening complexity of their respective human needs--from the simplest, the need to eat, to the most complex, the need for companionship. (Arguably, control can be considered the most complex, however I chose companionship as the culminating need because it inherently involves all of the other three.)
I hope if I accomplish only one thing, it is this: after reading, you see these animals--and your relationship to them--a little bit differently than before.
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Wasserman, Minke. "'Becoming animal': motifs of hybridity and liminality in fairy tales and selected contemporary artworks." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019759.
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‘Becoming Animal’: Motifs of Hybridity and Liminality in Fairy Tales and Selected Contemporary Artworks serves as a theoretical examination of the concept of the hybrid. My research unpacks the liminal aspect of hybridity, locating the hybrid in the imaginative world of popular fairy tales, folk lore and mythology. In my accompanying MFA exhibition, Becoming(s), I explore these motifs through an installation of mixed-media sculptures which are based on the hybrid creatures that populated the fantasy world of my childhood. The written component of my MFA submission will relate directly to my professional art practise, developing it further and situating it within a relevant context. In my mini-thesis I will consider the liminal in relation to the ‘animal turn’ in contemporary art, with a particular focus on relevant artists working with the motifs of hybridity, such as Nandipha Mntambo, Jane Alexander and Kiki Smith. The ‘animal turn’ is a term used by Kari Weil (2010: 3) to describe a contemporary interest in issues of the nonhuman, and in the ways that the relationship between humans and nonhumans is marked by “difference, otherness and power”. Of key concern to my research will be Giles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s concept of ‘becoming animal’. Rather than describing a transition from one stable state to another, ‘becoming animal’ suggests a radical dissolution of boundaries – not just between species (such as ‘human’ and ‘animal’) but between any essentialising binaries. As such, ‘becoming animal’ suggests a conception of identity as being fluid and mutable, rather than stable and fixed.
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Skinner, Patrick Joseph. "Relational cohesion in Palaeolithic Europe : hominin-cave bear interactions in Moravia and Silesia, Czech Republic, during OIS3." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609226.
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Shields, Christopher A. "In the Shadows of Dominion: Anthropocentrism and the Continuance of a Culture of Oppression." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2474.
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The oppression of nonhuman animals in Western culture observed in societal institutions and practices such as the factory farm, hunting, and vivisection, exhibits alarming linkages and parallels to some episodes of the oppression of human animals. This work traces the foundations of anthropocentrism in Western philosophy and connects them to the oppressions of racism, sexism, and ethnocentrism. In outlining a uniform theory of oppression detailed through the marginalization, isolation, and exploitation of human and nonhuman animals alike, parallels among the groups emerge as the fused oppression of each exhibits a commonality among them. The analysis conducted within this work highlights the development and sustainment of oppression in the West and illuminates the socio-historical tendencies apparent in the oppression of human and nonhuman animals alike.
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Feller, David Allan. "Heir of the dog : canine influences on Charles Darwin's theories of natural selection." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11648.
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"Bestiality, animality, and humanity a study of the animal poems by D. H. Lawrence and Ted Hughes in their historical and cultural contexts (William Blake)." 2003. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b6073518.
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"June 2003."Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2003.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-301).
Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Abstracts in English and Chinese.
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Stuart, Amanda Graham. "The Dingo in the colonial imagination." Phd thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/109295.
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This thesis is comprised of two parts: a Studio Research component with accompanying Exegesis (66%), and a Dissertation (33%). The Dissertation provides the historical theoretical component that informs the Studio Research and Exegesis, entitled The Dingo in the Colonial Imagination.This body of work investigates the tensions between humans and animals that share boundaries. It focuses on the terse relations between humans, dingoes and wild dogs in southeastern Australia. Ideological and practical themes emerged through the studio-based and theoretical research, which spans a range of disciplines including art, science, culture and history. At its core is how humans and undomesticated animals share arbitrary boundaries and suffer the transgression of these boundaries. Primary field research informed the studio and theoretical aspects of the project. It involved consultation with individuals and agencies affected by dingoes and wild dogs in interface zones where private and government managed lands intersect. The 30,000 word dissertation traces colonial visual representations of the Australian native dog during the century that spans early European settlement to Federation. It follows perceptions of the dingo as it is imagined and encountered by European settlers. The dingo's guise ranges from scientific curiosity, object of desire, symbol of wilderness, metaphor for a dying race and as an enemy that threatens the social and economic fabric of the colonial project. The studio work amplifies the influence of these colonial perceptions on contemporary attitudes to dingoes. It follows a trajectory of the disappearing dingo in its representational form, to its implied remnant presence within the farmers' psyche. Early studio work explored a range of materials and practices, encompassing sculptural and drawing strategies, and took its cue from a macabre ritual of animal shaming in remote regional Australia, the so-called 'dog trees', that display the carcasses of one or multiple dingoes and wild dogs. The studio work has culminated in a large-scale sculptural installation, designed to pare back the visual language to its essential elements. This work incorporates the dissolution of the dingo form, which becomes absorbed into the personal objects embedded into the farmers' private territory. The poetic objects that form the final sculptural work presented for examination, Lines of desire, become metaphors for the dingo's capacity to survive and unsettle the rural subconscious.
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Simões, Catarina Anselmo Santana. "Imagens de Poder: Animais exóticos na cultura de corte em Portugal no Renascimento." Doctoral thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/121653.
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No início do período moderno, a exploração da costa africana pelos europeus e o estabelecimento de rotas marítimas directas entre a Europa, a Ásia e a América conduziram a um incremento do consumo de mercadorias e produtos extra-europeus, que se tornaram num importante elemento do quotidiano nos ambientes cortesãos. Entre estes, os animais exóticos contavam-se entre os que eram cultural e politicamente mais relevantes. O envolvimento pioneiro da Coroa portuguesa no processo da Expansão europeia e no estabelecimento de redes de comércio, influência e poder imperial garantia-lhe um acesso privilegiado a estes animais exóticos, que os monarcas de Avis depressa incorporaram nas suas estratégias de propaganda política e na construção das suas imagens de poder pessoal e dinástico. Os animais extra-europeus vivos e os seus subprodutos eram uma parte significativa das mercadorias de origem natural que eram importadas, sendo, por isso, essenciais para o contacto europeu com as realidades naturais extra-europeias, e para a construção do conhecimento sobre a natureza. Mas para além de mercadorias transacionáveis e objectos de conhecimento, estes animais também eram mantidos em cativeiro em ménageries reais e exibidos em cerimónias públicas, onde funcionavam como símbolos de poder imperial e monárquico; e circulando entre diversas cortes no contexto de uma “economia da dádiva”, mediavam relações diplomáticas e políticas entre soberanos, transpondo por vezes fronteiras culturais, religiosas e civilizacionais. O importante papel que animais selvagens extra-europeus desempenharam na construção da memória política dos monarcas portugueses dos séculos XV e XVI deve ser compreendido no quadro de uma tradição antiga e medieval, em que a reunião deste tipo de animais, a sua exibição pública, e o seu uso como presentes diplomáticos eram práticas universalmente identificadas com o exercício da soberania. Para além de evidenciarem o controlo humano sobre o mundo natural, estas práticas também sinalizavam o controlo dos soberanos sobre populações e territórios, em particular em contextos imperiais. Na corte portuguesa do Renascimento, o seu significado político era evidente, remetendo directamente para os projectos e pretensões imperiais da Coroa, e garantindo-lhe um papel como mediadora no acesso de outras cortes europeias a alguns destes animais, como elefantes e rinocerontes. Estas práticas também se encontravam relacionadas com a forma como a natureza extra-europeia, e em particular os animais, eram percepcionados. Cada animal podia evocar múltiplas associações e significados, que justificavam a sua apropriação como um símbolo de identidade. Assim, os animais exóticos desempenhavam uma função cultural crucial na percepção e representação europeia do mundo extra-europeu; mas podiam, também, funcionar como emblemas de qualidades, virtudes e vícios humanos. Esta tese tem como objectivo analisar a utilização política destes animais à luz das múltiplas funções que desempenhavam e dos diversos significados que encerravam, procurando interagir com algumas questões centrais da historiografia mais recente que se debruça sobre as relações entre humanos e animais não-humanos. Neste sentido, é importante referir que as percepções sobre estes animais e a sua instrumentalização por parte dos humanos, eram não raras vezes influenciadas e condicionadas pelas interacções directas que se estabeleciam, questão que não deve ser descurada.In the beginning of the early-modern period, European exploration of the African coast and the establishment of direct maritime routes between Europe, Asia and the Americas led to a significant increase in the consumption of non-European commodities. Among these, exotic animals were some of the most culturally and politically relevant. Through its early involvement in the European expansion and the establishment of networks of trade, influence and imperial power, the Portuguese Crown had a privileged access to these exotic animals, which Portuguese kings quickly incorporated in their strategies of political propaganda and in the construction of their political and dynastic identities. Live exotic animals and their processed body parts formed a significant part of the natural commodities imported from other continents, making them essential elements for the construction of knowledge on non-European nature, and for the European experience of distant places. But besides being objects of trade and knowledge, these animals were also kept in royal menageries and exhibited in public ceremonies, where they functioned as symbols of imperial power. And through gift-giving practices, they circulated between courts, mediating diplomatic and political relations, and sometimes crossing cultural, religious and civilizational boundaries. The important role that wild non-European animals played in the construction of the political memory of Portuguese monarchs of the 15th and 16th centuries must be understood as part of an ancient and medieval tradition, in which keeping, exhibiting and sending these animals as diplomatic gifts were practices universally identified with kingship. Besides testifying human control over the natural world, these practices also signaled the sovereigns’ control over populations and territories, especially in imperial contexts. At the Renaissance Portuguese court, they recalled the Crown’s imperial activities and agenda, and secured its role as a mediator in the access of other European courts to some of these animals, such as elephants and rhinoceroses. These practices were also related to European perceptions of non-European nature and animals. In the Renaissance, each animal could evoke multiple associations and meanings, which justified its appropriation as a symbol of identity. Therefore, exotic animals were instrumental to the perception and representation of the non-European world in general; but they could also function as emblems of human qualities, virtues and vices that were projected onto them by humans. This thesis analyzes the political use of exotic animals and the multiple functions and meanings associated to them, while engaging with some issues of current animal studies historiography. In this sense, it should not be disregarded that human perceptions of these animals and their political appropriation were often influenced and conditioned in diverse ways by the animals themselves, and the direct interactions between them and the humans in whose lives they participated.
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Štiková, Irena. "Druhý živý. Trend začleňování zvířete do společnosti." Master's thesis, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-357697.
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The thesis deals with a relationship between humans and animals. In particular, it focuses on a trend of inclusion and exclusion of animals to/from society. Main research questions are designed to answer a question how the dynamics of this trend looks. A dynamic of moral status of animals, legal status of animals, symbolic status of animals and a status of another living being is examined on the European society from antiquity to the present. This time period is divided into 7 parts. The thesis explores not only the dynamics of the statuses, but also their interaction. The symbolic establishment of human - animal boundaries in the European history is considered as well. The thesis reflects essential turning points and tendencies which had the influence on the trend of inclusion and exclusion of animals to/from society. Reader should get the basic knowledge about the development of human - animal relationship through the history.
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Roothman, Linda. "Transliggaamlikheid, kriptosoölogie en dieresiele in Kikoejoe (Etienne van Heerden, 1996), Die olifantjagters (Piet van Rooyen, 1997) en Dwaalpoort (Alexander Strachan, 2010)." Diss., 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/19690.
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Text in AfrikaansIn hierdie studie word die verbandhoudende teoretiese begrippe van trans-liggaamlikheid, kriptosoölogie en dieresiele ondersoek met verwysing na drie magies-realistiese Afrikaanse romans, naamlik Kikoejoe (Etienne van Heerden, 1996), Die olifantjagters (Piet van Rooyen, 1997) en Dwaalpoort (Alexander Strachan, 2010). Die gewaande dualisme tussen kultuur en natuur word in die tekste bevraagteken en vrye interaksie tussen biologiese, klimatologiese, ekonomiese en politieke magte vind plaas in die onderskeie romanruimtes. Die toenemende druk op die omgewing word uitgebeeld en in hierdie opsig sluit die romans aan by ʼn eietydse tendens in die (Afrikaanse) letterkunde waar die klem op ekologiese kwessies val. Hierdie drie kontemporêre romans reflekteer voorts die komplekse interaksie tussen menslike en niemenslike diere en kan beskou word as dierenarratiewe (met ’n mitiese onderbou) waar tradisionele beskouings oor diere in die samelewing deurentyd ondermyn word.
In this research report, related theoretical concepts such as transcorporeality, cryptozoology and animal souls will be explored with reference to the magic-realistic Afrikaans novels Kikoejoe (Etienne van Heerden, 1996), Die olifantjagters (Piet van Rooyen, 1997) and Dwaalpoort (Alexander Strachan, 2010). The perceived dualism of nature versus culture is undermined in the respective novels and the environment is exposed as a space where the interaction between biological, climatological, economical and political forces takes place freely. The novels portray the increasing demands on the environment and in this respect these texts become representative of a current trend in (Afrikaans) literature to reflect ecological issues. The three contemporary novels further reflect the complex interaction between human and nonhuman animals and can be described as animal narratives (underpinned by myths) where traditional perspectives on animals in society are constantly subverted.
Afrikaans and Theory of Literature
M.A. (Afrikaans)
Books on the topic "Human-animal relationships – History"
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Albarella, Umberto. Ethnozooarchaeology: The present and past of human-animal relationships. Oxbow Books, 2011.
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The lost history of the canine race: Our 15,000-year love affair with dogs. Andrews and McMeel, 1996.
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A history of attitudes and behaviours toward animals in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain: Anthropocentrism and the emergence of animals. Edwin Mellen Press, 2008.
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The pawprints of history: Dogs and the course of human events. Free Press, 2002.
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Animals and society: An introduction to human-animal studies. Columbia University Press, 2012.
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DeMello, Margo. Animals and society: An introduction to human-animal studies. Columbia University Press, 2012.
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In the company of animals: A study of human-animal relationships. B. Blackwell, 1986.
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In the company of animals: A study of human-animal relationships. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
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Creatural fictions: Human-animal relationships in twentieth and twenty-first century literature. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
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1959-, Pflugfelder Gregory M., and Walker Brett L. 1967-, eds. JAPANimals: History and culture in Japan's animal life. Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2005.
Book chapters on the topic "Human-animal relationships – History"
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Grzęda, Paulina. "Empathy, “Empathic Unsettlement,” and Human-Animal Relationships in Zakes Mda's The Whale Caller and J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace." In Emotions as Engines of History. Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003019015-7.
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Brando, Sabrina, and Elizabeth S. Herrelko. "Wild Animals in the City: Considering and Connecting with Animals in Zoos and Aquariums." In The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63523-7_19.
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AbstractConnecting people with nature is a powerful concept that opens doors for relationship building and conservation messaging. The roles of wild animals in the city (e.g., in zoos and aquariums) and how we interact with them—and vice versa—must evolve along with our theoretical discussions and animal management practices in order to advance the field. While taking into consideration the long history of animals in captivity, where we are today, and were we should go in the future, this chapter reviews animal welfare and its ethical frameworks, human-animal interactions and its effect on both animals and people, wildness in zoos and how we perceive different states of origin, compassionate education programs and their efforts to instil empathy and empower people to become agents of change, and the power of modern technology in providing real connections with artificial means. In this ever-changing world, living responsibly together has never been more important.
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Serpell, James A. "Companion animals." In Anthrozoology. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198753629.003.0002.
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Companion animals (or pets) form a distinctive category of domestic animals defined by their primary use as nonhuman social support providers. Companion animals have an ancient history that may precede and anticipate the original domestication of animals. Currently, more than 60% of European and American households keep pets, and their numbers are increasing rapidly in several emerging economies. The results of research over the past four decades suggest that relationships with companion animals may be beneficial to human health and well-being, though the extent of the benefits will likely depend on relationship quality. Exposure to positive relationships with pets in childhood may also predispose people to develop more empathic responses to animals later in life. In spite of these benefits, pet ownership also imposes costs, particularly in terms of environmental damage, risk to public health and threat to animal welfare. The future of these exceptional human–animal relationships will depend on striking a positive balance between the benefits and the costs.
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Bourke, Joanna. "‘Man versus Rabbits’." In Birkbeck. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192846631.003.0015.
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Abstract Animals have played a role in the history of the College. One of Birkbeck’s students—Charles Wesley Hume—created the University of London Animal Welfare Society, which sought to improve relationships between human and nonhuman animals. Unlike many other animal welfare organizations, it was less concerned with animal rights and more with animal welfare. The college was active in reforming the 1876 Cruelty to Animals Act, although there was considerable hostility amongst some scientists who employed animals in laboratory experiments. The use of animals in such experiments gradually ceased, in part due to shifts in scientific interests, the impact of legislation, and animal liberation activists. By 2000, animal experimentation had also fallen out of favour at Birkbeck. Although the Department of Psychology had been a hotbed for behaviourism—with its long history of studying nonhuman animals—this had been superseded by other intellectual approaches by the start of the twenty-first century; specifically, the neurosciences.
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Albarella, Umberto, and Keith Dobney. "Introduction." In Pigs and Humans. Oxford University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199207046.003.0007.
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In terms of human–animal relationships, pigs are perhaps one of the most iconic but also paradoxical domestic animals. On the one hand, they are praised for their fecundity, their intelligence, and their ability to eat almost anything, but on the other hand, they are unfairly derided for their apparent slovenliness, unclean ways, and gluttonous behaviour. In complete contrast, their ancestor (the wild boar) is perceived as a noble beast of the forest whose courage and ferocity has been famed and feared throughout human history. The relationship of wild boar and pig with humans has been a long and varied one. Archaeological evidence clearly shows that wild boar were important prey animals for early hunter-gatherers across wide areas of Eurasia for millennia. During the early Holocene, however, this simple predator–prey relation evolved into something much more complex as wild boar, along with several other mammal species, became key players in one of the most dramatic episodes in human history: the shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture, involving the domestication of plants and animals. From that moment, wild boar turned into pigs and became much more than mere components of human subsistence strategies. They were key entities in the complex cultural development of some human societies around the world and played an important role in the history of human dispersal. Interestingly, the consumption of pork also became (and still remains) perhaps the most celebrated, and widespread, case of dietary proscription. In terms of their relationships with humans, pigs are victims of their own success. Even more than wolves, they are highly adaptable and generalized omnivores, which means that they have a range of possible relationships with humans that is perhaps wider and more complex than for most other animal species. In fact, the biology and behaviour of pigs present a number of special challenges to their study, in addition to offering opportunities to further understand aspects of human history. The concept of this book grew out of an international workshop, entitled ‘Pigs and Humans’, held over the weekend of 26–28 September 2003, at Walworth Castle, County Durham, UK.
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Deane-Drummond, Celia E. "Life in a Multispecies Commons." In Theological Ethics through a Multispecies Lens. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198843344.003.0006.
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Both the haunting memories of our earliest ancestors recorded on ancient cave paintings around the world and close ethnographic studies of human relationships with specific animals, reveal that humans have never been alone. This history is one of cooperation as well as of violence, and while the shadow side of that history should not be either under- or overplayed, a detailed discussion on this is deferred to the second volume. Humans are sometimes known as the hyper-cooperative species, but how might those cooperative tendencies play out in relation to other animals? Using work by anthropologists who have begun to analyse the lives of other animals using anthropological tools through ethno-primatology and ethno-hyenaology, and ethno-elephantology, the case is made for common occurrence of human/other animal entanglements. The theoretical resources for this work stem from an evolutionary approach called the extended evolutionary synthesis or niche construction theory. The philosophical basis for this work draws on biosocial anthropological theories developed by Tim Ingold. It is also useful to distinguish between ‘hidden’ multispecies associations in the microbiome and that which is played out through gradually more explicit responses between different species. All form closely interlaced relationships that contribute to the niche in which these relationships are embedded.
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Uhl, Elizabeth W., and Richard Thomas. "Uncovering tales of transmission: an integrated palaeopathological perspective on the evolution of shared human and animal pathogens." In Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198849711.003.0017.
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This chapter highlights the potential of an integrated palaeopathological approach for unravelling the evolutionary history of shared human and animal pathogens. The transfer of pathogens between animals and humans has occurred for millennia and remains a public health issue today, as evidenced by the Covid-19 pandemic. Although the focus has traditionally centred on pathogens transmitted from animals to humans (zoonoses), the direction of transmission is also often the other way (reverse zoonoses). The best way to understand the cross-species transfer of pathogens is by investigating the conditions that make it possible for a new host, whether human or animal, to be infected. As societies transitioned from hunting and foraging to herding and farming, and from living in rural to urban settings, and in increasingly industrialised environments, dramatic changes occurred in their relationships with animals. These changes had major impacts on pathogen evolution. In particular, the new opportunities for transmission affected pathogen virulence and distribution. This chapter investigates the factors driving transmission of Taenia tapeworms, Mycobacteria, Plasmodium falciparum, Brucella, Burkholderia mallei and the morbilliviruses in domestic environments. It draws evidence from palaeopathology, historical sources, molecular analysis, paleoenvironmental data and medical/veterinary clinical literature. This approach helps explain why these pathogens became problematic when and where they did, and it identifies factors that are likely to contribute to future outbreaks. The chapter concludes with a reflection on the ways an interdisciplinary understanding of past diseases provides insights for current and future epidemics.
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Oma, Kristin Armstrong. "Past and Present Farming: Changes in Terms of Engagement." In Humans and the Environment. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199590292.003.0020.
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In archaeology, changes in human–animal relationships are rarely considered beyond the moment of domestication. This is influenced by Ingold’s idea that domestication led to a shift in the human engagement with animals (Ingold 2000: 61–76; see Armstrong Oma 2007: 62–4, 2010 for critique). I do not question the validity of such a claim; however, I argue that changes in terms of engagement also happened beyond domestication, and that various configurations of human–animal relationships have existed throughout history. Further, I argue that such changes also have consequences for the environment, by choice of land use strategies and husbandry regimes. A twofold purpose is pursued: first, to investigate how changes in social systems, in my case changes in terms of engagement between humans and animals, affect land use in such a way as to impinge upon natural systems and ecosystems. Second, I wish to grasp the political underpinnings of the models that are employed by archaeologists and, by doing so, to deconstruct the political use of the past (see also Stump, Chapter 10 this volume). Alternative models regarding economic strategies are sought, and the implications of these are discussed. Human–environment studies frequently deal with the impact of human intrusive land use strategies on ecosystems. Awareness has been created around these processes regarding land use techniques and practices (for example Denham and White 2007; Mazoyer and Roudart 2006). However, in European archaeology the impact of husbandry practices upon ecosystems has received considerably less, if any, attention. People in past societies from the Neolithic onwards made the conscious decision to live with animals as herders or as farmers, blending together social and economic choices that had repercussions for landscape developments and ecosystems. Investigations into the relationship between environmental changes caused by husbandry practices and the social systems that instigated those changes are an important contribution to research on past environmental development. These changes are identifiable in the archaeological record.
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Deane-Drummond, Celia E. "Domestication—Including Animals in Building Virtue." In Theological Ethics through a Multispecies Lens. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198843344.003.0008.
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In this chapter, an alternative understanding of justice is provided, one that bears on indigenous views as connected closely with restoration of relationships. The case is also made for the virtues of compassion, wisdom, and justice to be essential in consideration of how individuals are related to each other in a multispecies community. All three were likely to have been important in the evolution of cooperation that eventually led to domestication and, engaging with the work of Tim Ingold, the author argues against those who claim that the movement from hunting to domestication was necessarily a step back in human-animal relationships. Comparative examples from the domestication of bees and the domestication of horses is used together with studies of horse-human psychology in Western contexts in comparison with some ethnographic work by Marcus Baynes-Rock with Oremo communities in Ethiopia. Also explored are indigenous traditions on the domestication of wolves, dingos, and the evolution of dog domestication. While the link between compassion for humans and that towards other animals has a rich and ancient history, including biblical traditions, there is some resistance to the ethical importance of compassion for other animals. These objections are considered before arguing that both love and compassion are important, if not exclusive, elements in building a theoretical ground for animal ethics.
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Larson, Greger, and Umberto Albarella. "Current views on Sus phylogeography and pig domestication as seen through modern mtDNA studies." In Pigs and Humans. Oxford University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199207046.003.0010.
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The history of pig domestication is also the history of the beginnings of Eurasian agricultural civilization. Wild boar were an important hunted resource for many millennia before the domestication process significantly altered this relationship between pigs and humans. The end result of this process (involving not just pigs but all other farm animals and pets) has led not only to the development of a staggering number of breeds and variations of what were once solely wild animals, but also to the intensification of the relationship between human beings and domestic animals, to the point of near total dependence of each upon the other. By investigating when, where, and how many times pigs (and other animals) were domesticated, we not only gain an insight into the process of domestication, itself, but also (by extension) a deeper understanding of human history, evolutionary biology, biogeography, and a host of other disciplines. The beginnings of pig management and domestication probably began sometime between the 10th to 8th millennium BP. In western Eurasia, the earliest archaeological evidence for pig domestication comes from a number of sites in Eastern and central Anatolia: Çayönü Tepesi (Ervynck et al. 2001), Hallan Çemi (Redding & Rosenberg 1998; Redding 2005), and Gürcütepe (Peters et al. 2005). At Çayönü Tepesi, a unique 2,000-year stratigraphic sequence, spanning the 9th to 7th millennia BP, has provided perhaps one of the best opportunities to observe the actual process of domestication for pigs. Thus, biometrical and age-at-death data led Ervynck et al. (2001) to postulate several shifts in the intensity of pig–human relationships, not necessarily directly driven by humans in its initial stages. Active involvement of humans in this process, it was argued, took place much later. However the process is specifically defined, the evidence from Çayönü Tepesi clearly reflects an intensification of the relationship between people and pigs over two millennia, and points to eastern Turkey as a centre of early pig domestication. Unfortunately, most early archaeological sites do not possess such long, continuous, or reliably dated occupation sequences, which has made the identification of other centres of animal domestication difficult at best.
Conference papers on the topic "Human-animal relationships – History"
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Helskog, K. "ПОЧЕМУ ТАК МАЛО ПТИЦ?" У Труды Сибирской Ассоциации исследователей первобытного искусства. Crossref, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.25681/iaras.2019.978-5-202-01433-8.349-360.
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WHY SO FEW BIRDS This paper consideres the petroglyphs of birds in the inner part of the Alta fjord in northern Norway. During the time 5000 to BC/AD, when the petroglyphs were made, the focus was on water birds, although extremely few in relation to the total number of figures. No bird figures appear to have been made later than 2700 BC. The lack of birds among the late rock art in Alta does not mean that they no longer had a place within human animal relationships, beliefs and rituals, myths, narratives and subsistence, but only that they no longer were depicted in rock art. Ethno-historic information indicates that beliefs associated with birds were important in among Finno-Ugric myths and folklore in late historic times, with roots in prehistory. There might be a link between prehistoric images and ethno-historic information, but to draw a direct connection through four thousand years between prehistoric and historic populations in the region of Alta need more information than I can provide. Статья посвящена изображениям птиц в наскальном искусстве внутренней части фьорда Альта на севере Норвегии. Петроглифы создавались здесь с V тыс. до н. э. до начала н. э. В основном изображались водоплавающие птицы, но их крайне мало по сравнению с общим числом фигур. Судя по всему, птицы не изображались вообще в период после 2700 л. до н. э. Отсутствие этого образа в позднем наскальном искусстве Альты вовсе не означает, что птицы перестали занимать свое место в отношениях человека с животными, в верованиях и ритуалах, мифах и сказаниях, а также в пропитании. Это значит лишь то, что они больше не изображались в наскальном искусстве. Этно-исторические данные свидетельствуют, что верования, связанные с птицами, занимали важное место в финно-угорских мифах и фольклоре в поздние исторические времена, уходя корнями в первобытность. Возможно, существует связь между доисторическими изображениями и этно-историческими данными, но чтобы установить эту связь, протянув ее через четыре тысячелетия, которые разделяют доисторические и исторические племена в районе Альты, требуется гораздо больше информации, чем есть сейчас в нашем распоряжении.
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Samama, M., J. Conard, M. H. Horellou, G. Nguyen, Van Dreden, and J. H. Soria. "ABNORMALITIES OF FIBRINOGEN AND FIBRINOLYSIS IN FAMILIAL THROMBOSIS." In XIth International Congress on Thrombosis and Haemostasis. Schattauer GmbH, 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1643716.
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We have reviewed our own experience (400 patients with documented thromboembolic disease) as well as that recorded in the literature. Impaired fibrinolysis after venous occlusion (VO) was the most common finding in patients with history of thrombosis (35% in our series). In contrast, very few families with such an alteration and thrombosis have been reported, suggesting that this disorder is most frequently acquired. In a series of 59 patients with history of thromboembolism, 25 patients with an abnormal responseto an 10 min. V0 on 2 different occasions (group A) were compared with 34 patients who had a normal response toV0 (group B). A positive family history was present in 50% of cases of both groups. A congenital deficiency in AT III, protein C or plasminogen was ruled out in all patients. In group A, as compared to group B, t-PA antigen (Elisa method) and activity (fibrinplates) were significantly lower after V0, basal PAI activity (Verheijen method) was higher (increased in 84 and 11% of patients in groups A and B respectively) and PAI after V0 was also higher in group A (p < 0.01). In this group an associated abnormal t-PA release cannot be reliably ruled out. In patients with abnormal V0 but normal basal PAI (n = 4), a decreased plasminogen activator release may besuspected.According to animal and in vitro studies, bovine and, to a less degree,human activated protein C (APC) may stimulate fibrinoly-* sis. In a groupof 46 patients with congenital proteinC deficiency, we could not demonstrate a significant alteration of the fibri-lytic response to V0 by common lysis tests on diluted whole blood, euglobulins or plasma ; in addition basalPAI activity levels were not significantly different from normal values,even in one homozygous patient. However, an alteration of fibrinolysis localized at the vascular surface and/or irrelevance of the tests used in thesepatients cannot be excluded.In principle, a contact factor deficiency could predispose to thrombosis since intrinsic activation of fibrinolysis requires factor XII, prekallikrein (PK) and high molecular weight kininogen (HMWK). However,there is no strong evidence for this relationship. A small number of plasminogen deficiencies associated with thrombosis have been reported, with decreased activity and normal or concommitantly reduced antigen.We have observed onlyone case of familialplasminogen deficiency (both antigen and activity) out of the 400 patients studied. The relationship between the deficiencyandthe occurence of thrombosis has been questioned since,although thrombosis occuredin our propositus as well as in some of the patients reported in the literature, accidents were infre quent in other affected family members.Although predisposition to thrombosis in patients with hypo- or dysfibrinogenemia (D) seems paradoxical, several reasons can account for this apparent coincidence. Fibrin possesses antithrombin properties and enhances plasminogen activation induced by t-PA. Moreover, fibrinogen binding to platelets is an essential step in the mechanism of platelet aggregation. Alteration of these different functions could enhance thrombosis. In fact, thrombotic episodes were observed in about 10% of probands with D and in 4 patients with hypofibrinogenemia. The siblings with D are frequently asymptomatic. In few cases it has been shown that the abnormal fibrinogen could predispose tothrombosis such as in Dusard syndrome. Several family members suffered from a severe thrombotic disorder. A defective fibrinolysis due to an impaired fibrin enhanced plasminogen activation by t-PA was demonstrated. In Fibrinogen Oslo an increase of fibrinogen platelet aggregation cofactor activity was postulated to predispose to venous thrombosis.A defective thrombin bindingto fibrin was found in at least 3 cases ofD(fibrinogen New York I, Malmoe, Milano).Infibrinogen New York an associated defective binding of t-PA was shown. The findings concerning a defective thrombin, plasminogen, or t-PA binding to fibrin in some patients with fibrinogen alteration suggesttheimportant role of clot structure in the pathogenesis of some thrombotic disorders.In conclusion, the best tests to detecthypofibrinolysis have still to be determined : whole blood or plasma, lysis tests ormore specific assays such as t-PA or PAI, venous occlusion of 10 min. or more. In addition, a defective fibrinolysis can be associated with a well-defined congenital deficiency in coagulation inhibitors.