Making animal meaning /
An elucidating collection of ten original essays, Making Animal Meaning reconceptualizes methods for researching animal histories and rethinks the contingency of the human-animal relationship. The vibrant and diverse field of animal studies is detailed in these interdisciplinary discussions, which i...
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Other Authors / Creators: | Kalof, Linda, editor. Montgomery, Georgina M., editor. |
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Format: | eBook Electronic |
Language: | English |
Imprint: | East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2011]. |
Series: | Animal turn.
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Online Access: | Click here for full text at Project MUSE |
Table of Contents:
- Animal writes : historiography, disciplinarity, and the animal trace / Etienne Benson
- Mobility and the making of animal meaning : the kinetics of "vermin" and "wildlife" in southern Africa / Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga
- Cannibalism, consumption, and kinship in animal studies / Analía Villagra
- The Renaissance transformation of animal meaning : from Petrarch to Montaigne / Benjamin Arbel
- On the trail of the devil cat : hunting for the jaguar in the United States and Mexico / Sharon Wilcox Adams
- Animal deaths and the written record of history : the politics of pet obituaries / Jane Desmond
- Golden retrievers are white, pit bulls are black, and chihuahuas are Hispanic : representations of breeds of dog and issues of race in popular culture / Meisha Rosenberg
- Interspecies families, freelance dogs, and personhood : saved lives and being one at an assistance dog agency / Avigdor Edminster
- Animal meaning in T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's book of practical cats / Stacy Rule
- Animals at the end of the world : notes toward a transspecies eschatology / Casey R. Riffel.