"Flexible Personhood": Loving Animals as Family Members in Israel

American Anthropologist

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 420-432

  Shir Vertesh, Dafna ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Animality; Boundaries; Flexibility; Humanness; Israel

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865322275     PISSN: 00027294     EISSN: 15481433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1433.2012.01443.x     Document Type: Article

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