Human-Horse Relations and the Ethics of Knowing

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