La tenencia de mascotas en Bogotá d.c. complejos biopolíticos

Abstract

The presence of animals in human societies has been a decisive factor in their development, it is enough to recall by way of example that domestication provided various sources of food and shelter, allowing a shift of the pre-existing nomadic forms of life, also granted warlike advantages. to cavalry armies, he arranged the use of dogs in hunting, and gave a leading role to different species of animals in the transport and development of merchant fleets. Similarly, the possession of some exotic animals was a symbol of prestige in different social organizations, as well as the protection offered by dogs to homes of people in different latitudes. Thus the human being through the domestication of the different species has constituted multiple ways of interacting with the animals, and the way of accessing or relating to these has influenced important aspects of their development. The relationship of man with animals is determined in modern societies mainly by forms of commercialization and exploitation, although these categories are far from fully accounting for the nature of the relationships between them.