![]() ![]() Following a practice-oriented social anthropological approach and drawing on insights from both science and technology studies and human-animal studies, I argue that a central feature of the Arabian horse industry and global breeding community is genealogical talk about the Arabian horse. Kristen Guest and Monica Mattfeld.īased on ethnographic research in Egypt and the United States, this chapter will focus on the emergence and dynamics of transnational networks of modern Arabian horse breeding with a focus on the Straight Egyptian Arabian horse as a nationalized and trademarked modern sub-breed. ![]() Monica is currently interested in questions of breed, type, and purity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, along with questions relating to equine performance and nineteenth-century hippodrama. Bringing together different historical, geographical, and disciplinary perspectives, this book will appeal to academics, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students, in the fields of human-animal studies, sociology, environmental studies, cultural studies, history, and literature. Focusing on various horse breeds, from the Chincoteague Pony to Brazilian Crioulo and the Arabian horse, each chapter in this collection considers how human and animal identities are shaped by practices of breeding and categorizing domesticated animals. The quest for purity in equine breed reflects and evolves alongside human subjectivity shaped by categories of race, gender, class, region, and nation. It explores issues of lineage, purity, and status by exploring interconnections between animals and humans. ![]() This book demonstrates how horse breeding is entwined with human societies and identities. ![]()
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