Zoonotic diagrams : mastering and unsettling human-animal relations

@article{Lynteris2017ZoonoticD,
  title={Zoonotic diagrams : mastering and unsettling human-animal relations},
  author={Christos Lynteris},
  journal={Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute},
  year={2017},
  volume={23},
  pages={463-485}
}
  • C. Lynteris
  • Published 3 July 2017
  • Political Science
  • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Research leading to this article was funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant (under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme ERC grant agreement no. 336564) for the project ‘Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic’ at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities of the University of Cambridge. 
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