Volsche Shelly, Mohan Miriam, Gray Peter B, Rangaswamy Madhavi
Boise State University, Boise, ID 83725, USA.
CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, Karnataka 560029, India.
Animals (Basel). 2019 Jul 31;9(8):514. doi: 10.3390/ani9080514.
Conversations in the field of anthrozoology include treatment and distinction of food animals, animals as workers versus pests, and most recently, emerging pet trends including the practice of pet parenting. This paper explores attitudes toward pet dogs in the shared social space of urban India. The data include 375 pen-and-paper surveys from students at CHRIST (Deemed to be University) in Bangalore, India. Reflecting upon Serpell's biaxial concept of dogs as a relationship of and , the paper considers the growing trend of pet dog keeping in urban spaces and the increased use of affiliative words to describe these relationships. The paper also explores potential sex differences in attitudes towards pet and stray dogs. Ultimately, these findings suggest that the presence of and affiliation with pet dogs, with reduced and increased , is symptomatic of cultural changes typical of societies encountering the second demographic transition. Despite this, sex differences as expected based upon evolutionary principles, remain present, with women more likely to emphasize health and welfare and men more likely to emphasize bravery and risk taking.
动物人类学领域的讨论内容包括食用动物的对待与区分、作为劳动力的动物与害虫的区别，以及最近出现的新兴宠物趋势，包括宠物养育行为。本文探讨了印度城市共享社会空间中对宠物狗的态度。数据包括来自印度班加罗尔克里斯（被视为大学）学生的375份纸笔调查。基于塞尔佩尔将狗视为一种……关系的双轴概念，本文考虑了城市地区饲养宠物狗的增长趋势以及使用更多亲昵词汇来描述这些关系的情况。本文还探讨了对宠物狗和流浪狗态度上可能存在的性别差异。最终，这些研究结果表明，宠物狗的存在及其与人的亲密关系，伴随着……的减少和……的增加，是经历第二次人口转变的社会典型文化变化的表现。尽管如此，基于进化原则预期的性别差异仍然存在，女性更倾向于强调健康和福利，而男性更倾向于强调勇敢和冒险。 （注：原文中部分内容缺失，翻译可能存在不完整情况）
