Teya Brooks Pribac is an independent scholar and multidisciplinary artist. She holds a PhD from the University of Sydney and works in animal advocacy and care between Australia and Europe.

"[The book is] not only a well-crafted study of animals, humans, and their many channels of emotional attachment, it’s a powerful intervention within the humanities more broadly – the dramatic unveiling, promised by the title, of the urgent necessity of taking the animal perspective seriously for understanding both nonhuman and human lifeways."

• AcknowledgmentsForewordIntroductionAnimal subjectivityIntersubjective attachment and lossCross-cultural grief mattersSpiritual animalGrief at a distance: humans grieving unknown nonhuman animalsCoda: The precarious way aheadReferencesIndex

Teya Brooks Pribac is an independent scholar and multidisciplinary artist. She holds a PhD from the University of Sydney and works in animal advocacy and care between Australia and Europe.

"[The book is] not only a well-crafted study of animals, humans, and their many channels of emotional attachment, it’s a powerful intervention within the humanities more broadly – the dramatic unveiling, promised by the title, of the urgent necessity of taking the animal perspective seriously for understanding both nonhuman and human lifeways."

• AcknowledgmentsForewordIntroductionAnimal subjectivityIntersubjective attachment and lossCross-cultural grief mattersSpiritual animalGrief at a distance: humans grieving unknown nonhuman animalsCoda: The precarious way aheadReferencesIndex

Teya Brooks Pribac is an independent scholar and multidisciplinary artist. She holds a PhD from the University of Sydney and works in animal advocacy and care between Australia and Europe.

"[The book is] not only a well-crafted study of animals, humans, and their many channels of emotional attachment, it’s a powerful intervention within the humanities more broadly – the dramatic unveiling, promised by the title, of the urgent necessity of taking the animal perspective seriously for understanding both nonhuman and human lifeways."

• AcknowledgmentsForewordIntroductionAnimal subjectivityIntersubjective attachment and lossCross-cultural grief mattersSpiritual animalGrief at a distance: humans grieving unknown nonhuman animalsCoda: The precarious way aheadReferencesIndex