Doctoral Dissertation Research: Animal Care Culture in US Zoological Facilities

本民族志研究将探讨在美国动物园设施中照顾和恢复动物所涉及的科学和道德实践。它将采用参与者观察，深入访谈和档案研究，以探索如何护理和康复的想法-包括哪些动物可以得到庇护，以及如何最好地确定和满足他们的需求-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动物园进行。该项目将建立在人类学和其他学科中越来越多的多物种民族志工作的基础上，这些学科旨在阐明人类与动物在一系列科学和应用背景下的相互作用如何塑造人类对动物和多物种关系的理解。该项目将有助于培养一名人类学研究生。此外，由此产生的Ph.D.论文，文章和公开演讲将告知在当代美国社会动物治疗的伦理更深入的理解。

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.