Cat Culture: The Social World of a cat Shelter [Audiobook] download free by Janet M. Alger
- Listen audiobook: Cat Culture: The Social World of a cat Shelter
- Author: Janet M. Alger
- Release date: 2003/12/12
- Publisher: TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS,U.S.
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Natural History
- ISBN: 9781566399982
- Rating: 7.6 of 10
- Votes: 231
- Review by: Aranza Hoover
- Review rating: 7.54 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/1
- Duration: 3H16M6S in 256 kbps (51.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-19
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, Vorbis, MPEG-4 DST, Apple Lossless, WAV, MP3, MPEG4, FLAC (compression CBR, TAR.BZ, RAR, ZIP, TAR.XZ)
- Total pages original book: 256
- Includes a PDF summary of 26 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 21M1S (5.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Even people who live with cats and have good reason to know better insist that cats are aloof and uninterested in relating to humans. Janet and Steven Alger contend that the anti-social cat is a myth; cats form close bonds with humans and with each other. In the potentially chaotic environment of a shelter that houses dozens of uncaged cats, they reveal a sense of self and build a culture-a shared set of rules, roles, and expectations that organizes their world and assimilates newcomers. As volunteers in a local cat shelter for eleven years, the Algers came to realize that despite the frequency of new arrivals and adoptions, the social world of the shelter remained quite stable and pacific. They saw even feral cats adapt to interaction with humans and develop friendships with other cats. They saw established residents take roles as welcomers and rules enforcers. That is, they saw cats taking an active interest in maintaining a community in which they could live together and satisfy their individual needs.Cat Culture's intimate portrait of life in the shelter, its engaging stories, and its interpretations of behavior, will appeal to general readers as well as academics interested in human and animal interaction. Author note: Janet M. Alger is Professor of Sociology at Siena College. Steven F. Alger is Associate Professor of Sociology at the College of St. Rose.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Cats As Pets, Domestic Animals & Pets, Sociology
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 25.13 USD
- Dimensions: 140x210x18.03mm
- Weight: 308.44g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Philadelphia PA, United States
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