Doctoral Dissertation Research: Animal Care Culture in US Zoological Facilities

博士论文研究：美国动物设施中的动物护理文化

• 批准号: 1322203
• 负责人: Jeff Maskovsky
• 金额: $ 2.52万
• 依托单位: CUNY Graduate School University Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-08-01 至 2015-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1322203&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Animal; Care

This ethnographic study will examine scientific and ethical practices involved in caring for and rehabilitating of animals in zoological facilities in the United States. It will employ participant observation, in-depth interviews, and archival research to explore how ideas about care and rehabilitation - including which animals can be sheltered and how best to determine and meet their needs - shape human-animal interactions and how these ideas and interactions have changed over time. Ethnographic research will take place in three private, non-profit zoological facilities. This project will build on a growing body of work on multispecies ethnographies in anthropology and in other disciplines that seeks to illuminate how human-animal interactions in a range of scientific and applied contexts shape human understandings of animals and multispecies relationships. This project will contribute to the training of a graduate student in anthropology. In addition, the resulting Ph.D. dissertation, articles, and public presentations will inform a deeper understanding of the ethics of animal treatment in contemporary US society.

这项人种学研究将检查美国动物设施中涉及照顾和恢复动物的科学和伦理实践。它将采用参与性观察、深度访谈和档案研究来探索关于护理和康复的想法——包括哪些动物可以被庇护，以及如何最好地确定和满足它们的需求——如何塑造人与动物的互动，以及这些想法和互动如何随着时间的推移而变化。人种学研究将在三个私人的、非营利性的动物学机构进行。该项目将建立在人类学和其他学科中越来越多的多物种人种志工作的基础上，这些工作旨在阐明人类与动物在一系列科学和应用环境中的相互作用如何影响人类对动物和多物种关系的理解。这个项目将有助于培养一名人类学研究生。此外，由此产生的博士论文、文章和公开演讲将使人们对当代美国社会动物治疗的伦理有更深入的了解。