Dominance and Affection: The Making of Pets by Yi-Fu Tuan

Dominance and Affection: The Making of Pets

Yi-Fu Tuan

208 pages 1984

2 editions

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Is it cruelty or playfulness to breed a variety of goldfish with dysfunctional bulging eyes?  Was it an urge for dominance or benevolence that led ladies of eighteenth-century England to keep finely dressed black boys as their pets?  Can we be sai...

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