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18 produkter
Making Animal Meaning
Av Linda Kalof, Georgina M. Montgomery
Häftad, 2012
854 kr
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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 …
Animals as Domesticates
A World View through History
Häftad, 2013
529 kr
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Drawing on the latest research in archaeozoology, archaeology, and molecular biology, Animals as Domesticates traces the history of the domestication of animals around the world. From the llamas of South America and the turkeys of North America, to the cattle of India and the Australian dingo, this …
Animals as Neighbors
The Past and Present of Commensal Animals
Inbunden, 2013
1303 kr
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In this fascinating book, Terry O’Connor explores a distinction that is deeply ingrained in much of the language that we use in zoology, human-animal studies, and archaeology—the difference between wild and domestic. For thousands of years, humans have categorized animals in simple terms, often …
Animals as Neighbors
The Past and Present of Commensal Animals
Häftad, 2014
529 kr
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In this fascinating book, Terry O’Connor explores a distinction that is deeply ingrained in much of the language that we use in zoology, human-animal studies, and archaeology—the difference between wild and domestic. For thousands of years, humans have categorized animals in simple terms, often …
French Thinking about Animals
Av Louisa Mackenzie, Stephanie Posthumus
Inbunden, 2015
936 kr
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Bringing together leading scholars from Belgium, Canada, France, and the United States, French Thinking about Animals makes available for the first time to an Anglophone readership a rich variety of interdisciplinary approaches to the animal question in France. While the work of French thinkers …
Animals as Food
(Re)connecting Production, Processing, Consumption, and Impacts
Inbunden, 2015
1052 kr
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Every day, millions of people around the world sit down to a meal that includes meat. This book explores several questions as it examines the use of animals as food: How did the domestication and production of livestock animals emerge and why? How did current modes of raising and slaughtering …
Mourning Animals
Rituals and Practices Surrounding Animal Death
Inbunden, 2016
1052 kr
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We live more intimately with nonhuman animals than ever before in history. The change in the way we cohabitate with animals can be seen in the way we treat them when they die. There is an almost infinite variety of ways to help us cope with the loss of our nonhuman friends—from burial, cremation, …
Whose Dog Are You?
The Technology of Dog Breeds and The Aesthetics of Modern Human-Canine Relations
Inbunden, 2017
1533 kr
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The intriguing question in the title comes from an inscription on the collar of a dog Alexander Pope gave to the Prince of Wales. When Pope wrote the famous couplet “I am his Highness’ Dog at Kew, / Pray tell me Sir, whose Dog are You?” the question was received as an expression of loyalty. That …
Hats
A Very UNnatural History
Inbunden, 2020
1003 kr
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For such simple garments, hats have had a devastating impact on wildlife throughout their long history. Made of wild-caught mammal furs, decorated with feathers or whole stuffed birds, historically they have driven many species to near extinction. By the turn of the twentieth century, egrets, shot …
Spanish Thinking about Animals
Av Margarita Carretero-González
Inbunden, 2020
1064 kr
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Traditional cultural practices involving animals are being seriously questioned, heavily regulated, and, in some cases, even abolished in Spain. This essential and timely text brings together prominent scholars working in the ever-expanding field of animal studies in Spain, drawing from a variety …
Animal Resistance in the Global Capitalist Era
Inbunden, 2020
1024 kr
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The concept of animal resistance is now reaching a wide audience across the social media landscape. Animal Resistance in the Global Capitalist Era offers an overview of how animals resist human orderings in the context of capitalism, domestication, and colonization. Exploring this understudied …
Animals, Mind, and Matter
The Inside Story
Häftad, 2022
692 kr
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It’s no secret that animals are considered objects in the fields of law, commerce, and science, characterized as property and commodities. Animals, Mind, and Matter: The Inside Story challenges this ascription and establishes that animals are living subjects, who have minds and opinions of their …
Animals and Race
Av Jonathan W. Thurston-Torres
Häftad, 2023
692 kr
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The intersection of race and species has a long and problematic history. Western thinking specifically has demonstrated a societal need to try to conceive of race as a purely biological fact rather than a social construct. This book is an academic-activist challenge to that instinct, prioritizing …
Abject Animals
Discomfort in Human–Animal Companionship
Inbunden, 2027
1632 kr
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Abject Animals: Discomfort in Human–Animal Companionship explores the emotional contradictions and ethical tensions at the heart of human–animal relationships through a cross-cultural, multispecies ethnography of cats and dogs in the UK, France, and South Korea. Framing cats and dogs as “abject …
Abject Animals
Discomfort in Human–Animal Companionship
Häftad, 2027
763 kr
Kommande
Abject Animals: Discomfort in Human–Animal Companionship explores the emotional contradictions and ethical tensions at the heart of human–animal relationships through a cross-cultural, multispecies ethnography of cats and dogs in the UK, France, and South Korea. Framing cats and dogs as “abject …
Speaking of Real Animals and Their History
From the Deep Past to the Present
Av Linda Kalof
Inbunden, 2027
1893 kr
Kommande
Speaking of Real Animals and Their History offers an interdisciplinary exploration of animal lives across time, from dinosaurs and long-extinct cave bears to contemporary animals like the giant panda and bald eagles. Drawing on iconography, palaeozoology, zooarchaeology, osteobiography, and textual …
Speaking of Real Animals and Their History
From the Deep Past to the Present
Av Linda Kalof
Häftad, 2027
599 kr
Kommande
Speaking of Real Animals and Their History offers an interdisciplinary exploration of animal lives across time, from dinosaurs and long-extinct cave bears to contemporary animals like the giant panda and bald eagles. Drawing on iconography, palaeozoology, zooarchaeology, osteobiography, and textual …
Making Animal Meaning
Av Linda Kalof, Georgina M. Montgomery
Inbunden, 2011
1303 kr
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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 …
