Kindred Spirits: One Animal Family

Anne Benvenuti's Kindred Spirits explores transformative contact between humans and other animals, highlighting shared emotions and neurobiology. It offers insights into human-animal relationships and encourages creative responses to climate change.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 264 pages
Publication date: 01 June 2021
Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Anne Benvenuti's book, Kindred Spirits, explores the profound connections between humans and animals. Through her visits with individuals and groups working in animal conservation, rescue, and sanctuary programs around the world, Benvenuti highlights the transformative power of human-animal interactions. She focuses on moments of transformative contact, portraying the resulting ripples that change the lives of both animals and humans. Benvenuti's expertise in animal and human neurobiology reveals that the ways in which other animals feel and think are actually similar to humans. She weaves this understanding into her narratives, showing how love, grief, fear, rage, sadness, curiosity, and play are shared by all. Benvenuti's book is not only for animal-loving public but also for anyone who loves a good story, ecology, animal welfare, psychology, or philosophy. As we travel with her to both backyard and far-flung locations, we experience again and again the surprising fact that other animals reach back to us, with curiosity, interest, and even care. Benvenuti's writing is accessible and engaging, making it a valuable resource for anyone interested in exploring the complex and fascinating world of human-animal relationships.

Weight: 333g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780820359571