Sentient commodities : human-livestock relations from birth to slaughter in commercial and hobby production

This thesis is a sociological exploration of how people involved in commercial and hobby livestock production, in Northeast Scotland, make sense of their relations with livestock, from birth to slaughter. I carried out an ethnographic study that combines fieldwork and unstructured interviewing to el...

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Main Author: Wilkie, Rhoda
Published: University of Aberdeen 2002
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.252059