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Abstract
By administering Personal Meaning of Insects Maps (PMIM) to participants from eastern Canada and northeastern United States, we examine how people’s perceptions of insects are often determined by childhood encounters, corporeal cues, and influenced by environmental preference during recreational activities, often resulting in inconsistencies, inaccuracies, and bias. While the purpose of this study was to acquire a greater understanding of these entanglements through visual maps, the goal of this paper is to disentangle these morasses by highlighting the various positive, negative, dialectic, and ambivalent aspects of how insects are perceived.
Recommended Citation
Lemelin, Raynald H.; Harper, Rick W.; Dampier, Jason; Bowles, Robert; and Balika, Debbie, Humans, Insects and Their Interaction: A Multi-faceted Analysis, Animal Studies Journal, 5(1), 2016, 65-79.Available at:https://ro.uow.edu.au/asj/vol5/iss1/5
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