The latest issue of American Ethnologist includes a very interesting article on the relationships between meerkats (a type of diminutive social mongoose inhabiting southern Africa) and the biologists who study them as part of the Kalahari Meerkat Project. While the biologists’ project has been in place since the early 1990s, more recently these particular meerkats have also become the …
The Chronicle Review has a nice series of articles covering the relatively recent turn to “animal studies” among scholars in the humanities and social sciences. An article by Jennifer Howard examines the emergence of animal studies, discussing related movements in literary and cultural studies, philosophy and ethics, history and the social studies of science.
“Dismantling that model takes animal-studies scholars
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