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- Title
Feist or fiction?: The squirrel dog of the southern mountains.
- Authors
Davis, Donald; Stotik, Jeffrey
- Abstract
The Feist, a small, energetic hunting dog, has taken an important element of southern culture for over 100 years. A great deal of the theoretical precedent for this study comes from the voluminous literature in animal-human relationship research. This research, has irrevocably demonstrated the importance of dogs and other "companion animals" for understanding social and cultural developments in contemporary society. Most of the literature in this field has grown out of the Delta Society's annual Human-Animal Companionship conferences which began in London, England in 1980. Participants of these conferences have convincingly argued that one should not underestimate "the significance of animals in social and psychological life of human species." Cultural anthropologist James Williams Jordan argues that domesticated animals, across cultures, are never passive elements. Not only are the appearances and habits of the animal changed by the particular culture it is a part of, but human and animal "reciprocally influence each other's way of life."
- Subjects
SOUTH America; RAT terrier; HUMAN-animal relationships; ANIMALS &; civilization; DOGS; HUNTING dogs; CONFERENCES &; conventions
- Publication
Journal of Popular Culture, 1992, Vol 26, Issue 3, p193
- ISSN
1540-5931
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.0022-3840.1992.2603_193.x