Human-Horse Relations and the Ethics of Knowing

This book explores how equestrians are highly invested in the idea of profound connection between horse and human and focuses on the ethical problem of knowing horses.

Rosalie Jones McVey is a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK. A social anthropologist, her interests lie in the anthropology of ethics, human/animal relations, and cognition. She has worked around the world as a horse trainer for a number of years.

Introduction: #Two Hearts and Tall Tales 1 Who Belongs in the Horse World Now? 2 "Learn From the Horse, Don't Label Him!" 3 Articulating Equine Characters and Human Virtues 4 Infantilisation and the Ethics of the Un-real 5 Qualifying the Centaur Conclusion: Never Straight from the Horse's Mouth