Pet Project – Eric Tourigny
What do changes in our beliefs about the death of our pets over the past century say about the relationship we have with our companion animals? In episode 90, Eric Tourigny from Newcastle University's School of History, Classics and Archaeology discusses his research into historic pet cemeteries and how they reveal our evolving feelings toward these animals, from beloved pets to valued family members with whom we may hope to reunify in an afterlife. His open-access article "Do all dogs go to heaven? Tracking human-animal relationships through the archaeological survey of pet cemeteries,” was published on October 27, 2020 in the journal Antiquity.
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Websites and other resources
Eric's website and Twitter account
Eric's Twitter thread on this research
Eric's "Finding Fido" project and Exeter's "Ancient Animals" app
The Secret Pet Cemetery of Hyde Park ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrWitagNj8k
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Hosts / Producers
Ryan Watkins & Doug Leigh
How to Cite
Watkins, R., Leigh, D., & Tourigny, E.. (2020). Parsing Science - Pet Project. figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13506681
Music
What’s The Angle? by Shane Ivers
Transcript
Eric Tourigny: By recording the epitaphs and the words that people use and the ways that they record the gravestones,