What is a microchip? It is a recognition device designed to be implanted under the skin of (for example) a dog or cat, in order to register the latter in a speciale canine or feline registry. Our question is: what is such a chip? We raise this question as a part of a reflection on the social dynamics involved when recognition of the identity of an animal is required for some human purpose.
Luca Martignani (2014). Feline Microchip: An Exercise in the Sociology of Documentality. THE MONIST, 97(2), 236-245.
Feline Microchip: An Exercise in the Sociology of Documentality
MARTIGNANI, LUCA
2014
Abstract
What is a microchip? It is a recognition device designed to be implanted under the skin of (for example) a dog or cat, in order to register the latter in a speciale canine or feline registry. Our question is: what is such a chip? We raise this question as a part of a reflection on the social dynamics involved when recognition of the identity of an animal is required for some human purpose.File in questo prodotto:
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