Cultural anthropologist Barbara Miller offers updates about people, cultures, rights, and change, around the world. A critical but wishfully hopeful view.
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ALT Book cover titled 'The Hand that Feeds: The complex relations of human-animal feeding '. The cover features flora and fauna. The design is bordered by pine needles, fir cones, fruit and vegetables. A cat, stag and cow are positioned focally above the subtitle: The complex relations of human-animal feeding. underneath birds, a fox and tiger. Below is the text: edited by Alexander Mullan, Riley Smallman, Herre de Bondt, and Juliette Waterman. UCL Press logo at bottom.
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