This paper represents the second of two planned articles in which we focus on the issue of the study of human-animal relations in ethnology and anthropology and archaeology. In the first paper (Žakula & Živaljević 2018), we mapped out the ways in which the issue of animals and their interrelations with humans was treated in our disciplines up untill, roughly, the 1980's. In this paper, we will present new research tendencies which developed since the 1980's and are characterized by the treatment of animals as active participants in human society and culture, and can be lumped together under the umbrella term the animal turn. [Projects of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. 177026: Kulturno nasleđe i identitet) and Grant no. III47001: Bioarheologija drevne Evrope: ljudi, životinje i biljke u praistoriji Srbije]