Farm (or “useful”) animals have not shared in the increased general interest in animals that has come to be known in the social sciences and humanities as the animal turn. On the contrary, interest in farm animals seems to be waning, and this is also happening in ethnology-anthropology – the discipline that has traditionally shown the most interest in them of all these disciplines. This article analyses the genealogy, circumstances and causes of the historical process of the gradual marginalisation, exclusion and displacement of farm animals in affluent Western societies and pays particular attention to this development in anthropology.
|
