People, I've been feeling a little confused. We now have Animal Studies, Ethnozoology, Ethnobiology, Anthrozoology, Anthropozoology, Zooanthropologia, and I don't know what else. It is very hard to say which if any of these terms are synonyms. They all all focus on the same questions and many of the same texts. There are differences among them, but these are often relatively subtle, perhaps incomprehensible to those outside their scholarly communities. In addition, various convergent areas of study seem to be segregated by linguistic barriers. Even though ISAZ (International Society for Anthrozoology) has "international" in its name, it seems in practice to be confined mostly to the English-speaking world, and that goes for Animal Studies as well. A lot of interesting work is probably being done in places such as, say, Japan or Turkey, but... |