Routledge Handbook of Human-Animal Studies

ISBN-13: 9780415521406 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 332 str.

Garry Marvin; Susan McHugh

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The Routledge Handbook of Human-Animal Studies presents a collection of original essays from artists and scholars who have established themselves internationally on the basis of specific and significant new contributions to human-animal studies. It offers a broad interpretive account of the development and present configurations of the field of human-animal studies across many cultures, continents, and times.

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In it Together: an Introduction to Human-Animal Studies   1. Mammoths in the Landscape  2. Domesticating Practices: The Case of Arabian Babblers  3. Escaping the Maze: Wildness and Tameness in Studying Animal Behaviour   4. Wherever I Lay my Cat? Post-Human Crowding and the Meaning of Home  5. On a Wing and a Prayer: Butterflies in Contemporary Art   6. ‘This Ain't Agriculture’   7. Beyond the Wild, the Feral, and the Domestic: Lessons from Prehistoric Crete   8. Netherworld Envoy or Man’s Best Friend? Attitudes toward Dogs in the Ancient World   9. The Material Culture of Pet Keeping   10. The Adored and the Abhorrent: Nationalism and Feral Cats in England and Australia   11. Animal Conceptions in Animism and Conservation: their Rootedness in Distinct Longue Durée Notions of Life and Death   12. The Emptiness of the Wild   13. Feral Attraction: Art, Becoming, and Erasure   14. Becoming Rhinoceros: Therio-Theatricality as Problem and Promise in Western Drama  15. Bestial Imaginings   16. Embodying the Feral: Indigenous Traditions and the Nonhuman in some Recent South African Novels  17. Going Wild in Space: The Porous Boundaries of Wild Animal Geographies  18. Relationships between Sámi Reindeer Herders, Lands, and Reindeer   19. Kinship Imaginaries: Children’s Stories of Wild Friendships, Fear, and Freedom  20. Mourning Crows: Grief and Extinction in a Shared World  21. Dead, Dead, Dead, Dead, Dead