Work within the sociology of the family and personal life has tended to proceed with little or no recognition of non-human members of the household. In the sociology of human–animal relations, however, ideas of multispecies families, multispecies households and animal companions (pets) as kin have been proposed in attempting to capture the close bonds between people and the animals they share their homes and lives with. Drawing on a UK ethnographic study, this article considers the emotional ties and affective relations people have with dog companions. The article argues that the sociological concept of the family is stretched in attempting to capture intra-species domestic relations. Haraway uses kin making to indicate that intimate relationality might be more widely drawn, beyond immediate human relatives to a range of people and beyond the human. Through a critical engagement with Haraway’s conception of ‘oddkin’, the article asks whether kin might be a more productive category in conceptualising intimate relations with animal companions.

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从神族到奇族：超越人类家庭的爱、友谊和亲情


家庭和个人生活社会学领域的研究往往很少或根本不承认家庭中的非人类成员。然而，在人与动物关系的社会学中，人们提出了多物种家庭、多物种家庭和动物伙伴（宠物）作为亲属的想法，试图捕捉人与他们共享家园和生活的动物之间的密切联系。本文借鉴英国的一项人种学研究，探讨了人们与狗伙伴之间的情感联系和情感关系。文章认为，家庭的社会学概念在试图捕捉物种内的家庭关系时被延伸了。哈拉维使用亲属关系来表明亲密关系可能会被更广泛地描绘，超越人类的直系亲属到一系列人并超越人类。通过对哈拉维“奇怪的人”概念的批判性探讨，本文提出了在概念化与动物伙伴的亲密关系方面，亲属是否可能是一个更有成效的类别。