The connection between people and companion animals has received considerable attention from scholars. In her original and provocative ethnography "Livestock/Deadstock," sociologist Rhoda Wilkie asks, how do the men and women who work on farms, in livestock auction markets, and slaughterhouses, interact withOCoor disengage fromOCothe animals they encounter in their jobs?

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Wilkie provides a nuanced appreciation of how those men and women who breed, rear, show, fatten, market, medically treat, and slaughter livestock, make sense of their interactions with the animals that constitute the...