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Exploring the intricate dynamics of dog behavior, anthropologist Elizabeth Marshall Thomas offers insights into the social structures and desires of dogs. Her groundbreaking observations challenge conventional views and provide a fresh perspective on the bond between humans and their canine companions, paving the way for a deeper understanding of their instincts and social interactions.

From the revered author of the bestselling The Hidden Life of Dogs, a witty, engaging, life-affirming account of the joy, strength and wisdom that comes with age.

"Tamed and Untamed -- a collection of essays penned by two of the world's most celebrated animal writers, Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas -- explores the minds, lives, and mysteries of animals as diverse as snails, house cats, hawks, sharks, dogs, lions, and even octopuses. Drawing on stories of animals both wild and domestic, the two authors, also best friends, created this book to put humans back into the animal world. The more we learn about what other animals think and do, they explain, the more we understand ourselves as animals, too. Writes Montgomery, "The list of attributes once thought to be unique to our species -- from using tools to waging war -- is not only rapidly shrinking, but starting to sound less and less impressive when we compare them with other animals' powers." With humor, empathy, and introspection, Montgomery and Thomas look into the lives of all kinds of creatures -- from man's best friend to the great white shark -- and examine the ways we connect with our fellow species. Both authors have devoted their lives to sharing the animal kingdom's magic with others, and their combined wisdom is an indispensable contribution to the field of animal literature. The book contains a foreword by Vicki Constantine Croke, author of the bestseller"--

Heartwarming and profound, this account of one writer’s relationship with his beloved German Shepherd is “one of the bonafide dog-lit classics” (New Yorker) The distinguished British man of letters J. R. Ackerley hardly thought of himself as a dog lover when, well into middle age, he came into possession of a German Shepherd. To his surprise, she turned out to be the love of his life, the “ideal friend” he had been searching for in vain for years. My Dog Tulip is a bittersweet retrospective account of their sixteen-year companionship, as well as a profound and subtle meditation on the strangeness that lies at the heart of all relationships. In vivid and sometimes startling detail, Ackerley tells of Tulip’s often erratic behavior and very canine tastes, and of his own fumbling but determined efforts to ensure for her an existence of perfect happiness. My Dog Tulip was adapted for the screen as a major animated feature film with a cast that includes the voices of Christopher Plummer, Lynn Redgrave, and Isabella Rossellini. Heralded as “a stroke of genius" by New York Magazine and “the love story of the year” by Vanity Fair, it is a masterpiece of animal literature that is sure to touch the hearts of anyone who has found companionship with their own four-legged friend.

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas was nineteen when her father took his family to live among the Bushmen of the Kalahari. Fifty years later, after a life of writing and study, Thomas returns to her experiences with the Bushmen, one of the last hunter-gatherer societies on earth, and discovers among them an essential link to the origins of all human society. Humans lived for 1,500 centuries as roving clans, adapting daily to changes in environment and food supply, living for the most part like their animal ancestors. Those origins are not so easily abandoned, Thomas suggests, and our modern society has plenty still to learn from the Bushmen. Through her vivid, empathic account, Thomas reveals a template for the lives and societies of all humankind.

Milano, Longanesi, 2001, 8vo legatura editoriale cartonato telato con fregi e titoli dorati al dorso e sovraccopertina illustrata a colori, pp. 299 con numerosi disegni nel testo (stato di nuovo) .

De auteur beschrijft de gedragingen van haar honden onder zeer verschillende omstandigheden.

Focusing on the dynamics between dogs and their human families, the author draws from her experiences to explore canine behavior and communication. As an anthropologist, she addresses common questions about dogs, such as the significance of their barks, challenges in house-training, and the intriguing relationships between dogs and cats. Through engaging anecdotes from her own household, she provides insights into how dogs have adapted to coexist with humans and each other, enriching our understanding of these beloved pets.

Die Autorin, bekannte Anthropologin und hervorragende Beobachterka, lebt mit ihrem Mann in einem „gemischten“ Haushalt, den sie sich mit Hunden, Katzen und Papageien teilen. In den letzten fünfzehn Jahren hat sie versucht, die Geschehnisse um sie herum näher zu betrachten und auf diese Weise direkte Erkenntnisse darüber zu gewinnen, was Tiere denken, in ihre Lebensgewohnheiten einzudringen und ihre sozialen Bedürfnisse zu verstehen.

What do cats want. What are they really thinking? And How do they view us?Elizabeth Marshall Thomas's instinct for understanding what makes animals behave the way they do made THE HIDDEN LIFE OF DOGS a worldwide bestseller. In TRIBE OF THE TIGER, she now turns her attention on felines, both large and small, domestic and wild. She looks at the bonds they form with humans and with each other, and how the hunting instinct of cats in the wild is reflected in the behaviour of domesticated animals. Do cats have emotions, and if so, how are they expressed? Why do cats purr?In this fascinating book - a must for all cat lovers - Elizabeth Marshall Thomas sheds light on these intriguing questions and many more.

Beschrijving in verhaalvorm van het gedrag en de psychologie van katten en katachtigen waarbij naast gegevens over de huiskat, de ervaringen van bosjesmannen met Afrikaanse leeuwen en de levensomstandigheden van katachtigen in dierentuinen beschreven worden.

Based on thirty years of living with dogs, wolves, and dingoes and of the ways their lives intertwined with her own, the novelist and anthropologist presents an ethological poem of the lives of dozens of dogs

La Sibérie, il y a 20000 ans, est le décor dans lequel évoluent cette femme et la tribu où elle apportera une nouvelle manière de vivre. Dans la ligne de ##La lune des rennes## (1987) du même auteur paru chez Laffont. Documentation et plan.

Die Anthropologin und Verhaltensforscherin Elizabeth Marshall Thomas führt in ihrem Roman in eine Zeit, die 20.000 Jahre zurückliegt. Kori, ein junger Mammut- und Rentierjäger, begegnet einer fremden Frau, die er zunächst für ein Tier hält, da sie die für ihn unbekannte Tätigkeit des Schwimmens praktiziert. Gegen ihren Willen nimmt Kori sie mit. Da sie aber die Sprache und die religiösen Tabus seiner Sippe nicht kennt, bleibt sie eine Außenseiterin.- Die Erzählung geht auf einen uralten Mythos zurück und ist eine Parabel für den schwierigen Umgang mit allem Fremden.

/ 9789024649198 / Literature translated into Dutch / Nederlands / Dutch / Néerlandais / Niederländisch / hard cover / dust jacket / 14 x 22 cm / 300 .pp /

“A study of primitive people which, for beauty of . . . style and concept, would be hard to match.” — The New York Times Book ReviewIn the 1950s Elizabeth Marshall Thomas became one of the first Westerners to live with the Bushmen of the Kalahari desert in Botswana and South-West Africa. Her account of these nomadic hunter-gatherers, whose way of life had remained unchanged for thousands of years, is a ground-breaking work of anthropology, remarkable not only for its scholarship but for its novelistic grasp of character. On the basis of field trips in the 1980s, Thomas has now updated her book to show what happened to the Bushmen as the tide of industrial civilization—with its flotsam of property rights, wage labor, and alcohol—swept over them. The result is a powerful, elegiac look at an endangered culture as well as a provocative critique of our own."The charm of this book is that the author can so truly convey the strangeness of the desert life in which we perceive human traits as familiar as our own. . . . The Harmless People is a model of the style very simple and precise, perfectly suited to the neat, even fastidious activities of a people who must make their world out of next to nothing." — The Atlantic

Het leven van een jong meisje in Siberië in de IJstijd.