February 28, 2010
In Anthrozoology, the Teacher's Pet Has 4 Legs
Courtesy Donald Joralemon
Donald Joralemon (with his dog Silkie) has his students study pets.
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Courtesy Donald Joralemon
Donald Joralemon (with his dog Silkie) has his students study pets.
Students in a new course at Smith College might actually get away with the excuse that the dog ate their homework. In "Colloquium in Anthropology: Pets," sometimes the dog—or even a cat or a bird or a rodent—is the homework.
Donald Joralemon, chairman of the anthropology department, developed the course in the relatively young science of anthrozoology, which examines the interactions between humans and their animals.
"I knew that I would be interested in
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