Animals in the Public Debate: Welfare, Rights, and Conservationism in India

This paper proposes a survey of the many ways in which people look at and deal with animals in contemporary India. On the basis of ethnographic research and of multiple written sources (judgments, newspapers, websites, legal files, activist pamphlets, etc.), I present some of the actors involved in...

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Main Author: Berti, Daniela 1966- (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: MDPI [2019]
In: Religions
Year: 2019, Volume: 10, Issue: 8, Pages: 1-25
Further subjects:B hunters
B Tibetan diaspora
B Hinduism
B Animal welfare
B court cases
B conservationism
B Animal Rights
B India
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