Highlighting Human-Animal Relations in Ethnoveterinary Ethnozoology

This session calls for work on ethnozoology, animal health, and ethnoveterinary care in various cultural contexts. Ethnoveterinary care and human-animal relations are critical domains affecting human, animal, and environmental health. This session encourages researchers to present work that surpasses ethnobotanical inventories of veterinary plant use, and expand on topics that include the influence of culture on veterinary care practices; emic understandings of biology, disease, and animal bodies; similarities, differences, or overlap between human ethnomedicine and ethnoveterinary care; multispecies ethnography; and the different ways in which people around the globe perceive, treat, and interact with animal sickness. We further encourage a special focus on how culture interconnects animals, humans, their environments, and global intraspecies wellbeing.