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Contents Preface: Why an Ethnography of a Shelter? ix Acknowledgments xv 1 The Myth of the Solitary Cat 1 2 The World of Whiskers 27 3 The Human-Cat Connection 50 4 The Social Bonds among the Cats 91 5 The Feral Cats and Shelter Solidarity 139 6 Leaving the Shelter Community 155 7 Culture and Self in the Domestic Cat 184 8 Animals in the Future of Sociology 199 Afterword 213 Notes 215 References 229 Index 235 Copyrighted Material Copyrighted Material ...

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