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Among the Bone Eaters
Encounters with Hyenas in Harar
Inbunden, 2015
405 kr
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Biologists studying large carnivores in wild places usually do so from a distance, using telemetry and noninvasive methods of data collection. So what happens when an anthropologist studies a clan of spotted hyenas, Africa’s second-largest carnivores, up close—and in a city of a hundred thousand …
Breathless Zoo
Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing
Häftad, 2013
391 kr
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From sixteenth-century cabinets of wonders to contemporary animal art, The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing examines the cultural and poetic history of preserving animals in lively postures. But why would anyone want to preserve an animal, and what is this animal-thing now? …
Gorgeous Beasts
Animal Bodies in Historical Perspective
Av Joan B. Landes, Paula Young Lee m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
644 kr
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Gorgeous Beasts takes a fresh look at the place of animals in history and art. Refusing the traditional subordination of animals to humans, the essays gathered here examine a rich variety of ways animals contribute to culture: as living things, as scientific specimens, as food, weapons, tropes, and …
Animals on Display
The Creaturely in Museums, Zoos, and Natural History
Av Liv Emma Thorsen, Karen A. Rader m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
490 kr
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John Berger famously said that “in the last two centuries, animals have gradually disappeared.” Those who share his view contend that animals have been removed from our daily lives and that we have been removed from the daily lives of animals. This has been the impetus for a plethora of …
Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves
Vintage American Photographs
Inbunden, 2014
417 kr
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Dogs are as ubiquitous in American culture as white picket fences and apple pie, embracing all the meanings of wholesome domestic life—family, fidelity, comfort, protection, nurturance, and love—as well as symbolizing some of the less palatable connotations of home and family, including domination, …
Animal Companions
Pets and Social Change in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Inbunden, 2015
885 kr
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Animal Companions explores how eighteenth-century British society perceived pets and the ways in which conversation about them reflected and shaped broader cultural debates.While Europeans kept pets long before the eighteenth century, many believed that doing so was at best frivolous and at worst …
Animal Companions
Pets and Social Change in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Häftad, 2017
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405 kr
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Animal Companions explores how eighteenth-century British society perceived pets and the ways in which conversation about them reflected and shaped broader cultural debates.While Europeans kept pets long before the eighteenth century, many believed that doing so was at best frivolous and at worst …
Storytelling Apes
Primatology Narratives Past and Future
Inbunden, 2015
369 kr
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The annals of field primatology are filled with stories about charismatic animals native to some of the most challenging and remote areas on earth. There are, for example, the chimpanzees of Tanzania, whose social and family interactions Jane Goodall has studied for decades; the mountain gorillas …
Elephant House
Inbunden, 2015
369 kr
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In Elephant House, photographer Dick Blau and historian Nigel Rothfels offer a thought-provoking study of the Oregon Zoo’s Asian Elephant Building and the daily routines of its residents—human and pachyderm alike. Without an agenda beyond a desire to build a deeper understanding of this enigmatic …
Becoming Centaur
Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship
Inbunden, 2017
1260 kr
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In this study of the relationship between men and their horses in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, Monica Mattfeld explores the experience of horsemanship and how it defined one’s gendered and political positions within society.Men of the period used horses to transform themselves, via …
Becoming Centaur
Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship
Häftad, 2018
475 kr
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In this study of the relationship between men and their horses in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, Monica Mattfeld explores the experience of horsemanship and how it defined one’s gendered and political positions within society.Men of the period used horses to transform themselves, via …
Where Honeybees Thrive
Stories from the Field
Av Heather Swan
Häftad, 2017
348 kr
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Colony Collapse Disorder, ubiquitous pesticide use, industrial agriculture, habitat reduction—these are just a few of the issues causing unprecedented trauma in honeybee populations worldwide. In this artfully illustrated book, Heather Swan embarks on a narrative voyage to discover solutions to—and …
Performing Animals
History, Agency, Theater
Av Karen Raber, Monica Mattfeld
Häftad, 2018
428 kr
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From bears on the Renaissance stage to the equine pageantry of the nineteenth-century hunt, animals have been used in human-orchestrated entertainments throughout history. The essays in this volume present an array of case studies that inspire new ways of interpreting animal performance and the …
Art for Animals
Visual Culture and Animal Advocacy, 1870–1914
Inbunden, 2018
569 kr
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Animal rights activists today regularly use visual imagery in their efforts to shape the public’s understanding of what it means to be “kind,” “cruel,” and “inhumane” toward animals. Art for Animals explores the early history of this form of advocacy through the images and the people who harnessed …
Art for Animals
Visual Culture and Animal Advocacy, 1870–1914
Häftad, 2019
206 kr
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Animal rights activists today regularly use visual imagery in their efforts to shape the public’s understanding of what it means to be “kind,” “cruel,” and “inhumane” toward animals. Art for Animals explores the early history of this form of advocacy through the images and the people who harnessed …
Hidden Life of Life
A Walk through the Reaches of Time
Inbunden, 2018
268 kr
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An iconoclast and best-selling author of both nonfiction and fiction, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has spent a lifetime observing, thinking, and writing about the cultures of animals such as lions, wolves, dogs, deer, and humans. In this compulsively readable book, she provides a plainspoken, …
Master Pongo
A Gorilla Conquers Europe
Inbunden, 2020
371 kr
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In the summer of 1876, Berlin anxiously awaited the arrival of what was billed as “the most gigantic ape known to zoology.” Described by European explorers only a few decades earlier, gorillas had rarely been seen outside of Africa, and emerging theories of evolution only increased the public’s …
Pet Projects
Animal Fiction and Taxidermy in the Nineteenth-Century Archive
Inbunden, 2019
233 kr
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In Pet Projects, Elizabeth Young joins an analysis of the representation of animals in nineteenth-century fiction, taxidermy, and the visual arts with a first-person reflection on her own scholarly journey. Centering on Margaret Marshall Saunders, a Canadian woman writer once famous for her animal …
Rabies in the Streets
Interspecies Camaraderie in Urban India
Inbunden, 2020
1331 kr
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Found in two-thirds of the world, rabies is a devastating infectious disease with a 99.9 percent case-fatality rate and no cure once clinical signs appear. Rabies in the Streets tells the compelling story of the relationship between people, street animals, and rabies in India, where one-third of …
Rabies in the Streets
Interspecies Camaraderie in Urban India
Häftad, 2021
475 kr
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Found in two-thirds of the world, rabies is a devastating infectious disease with a 99.9 percent case-fatality rate and no cure once clinical signs appear. Rabies in the Streets tells the compelling story of the relationship between people, street animals, and rabies in India, where one-third of …
Crocodile Undone
The Domestication of Australia’s Fauna
Inbunden, 2020
219 kr
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Across the world, animals are being domesticated at an unprecedented rate and scale. But what exactly is domestication, and what does it tell us about ourselves? In this book, Marcus Baynes-Rock seeks the common thread linking stories about the domestication of Australia's native animals, arguing …
Becoming Audible
Sounding Animality in Performance
Inbunden, 2020
1167 kr
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Becoming Audible explores the phenomenon of human and animal acoustic entanglements in art and performance practices. Focusing on the work of artists who get into the spaces between species, Austin McQuinn discovers that sounding animality secures a vital connection to the creatural.To frame his …
Becoming Audible
Sounding Animality in Performance
Häftad, 2023
405 kr
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Becoming Audible explores the phenomenon of human and animal acoustic entanglements in art and performance practices. Focusing on the work of artists who get into the spaces between species, Austin McQuinn discovers that sounding animality secures a vital connection to the creatural.To frame his …
Canis Modernis
Human/Dog Coevolution in Modernist Literature
Inbunden, 2020
1342 kr
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Modernist literature might well be accused of going to the dogs. From the strays wandering the streets of Dublin in James Joyce’s Ulysses to the highbred canine subject of Virginia Woolf’s Flush, dogs populate a range of modernist texts. In many ways, the dog in the late nineteenth and early …
Canis Modernis
Human/Dog Coevolution in Modernist Literature
Häftad, 2022
439 kr
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Modernist literature might well be accused of going to the dogs. From the strays wandering the streets of Dublin in James Joyce’s Ulysses to the highbred canine subject of Virginia Woolf’s Flush, dogs populate a range of modernist texts. In many ways, the dog in the late nineteenth and early …
Lesser Living Creatures of the Renaissance
Volume 1, Insects
Av Keith Botelho, Joseph Campana
Inbunden, 2023
1295 kr
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Lesser Living Creatures examines literary and cultural texts from early modern England in order to understand how people in that era thought about—and with—insect and arachnid life. Designed for the classroom, the book comprises two volumes—Insects and Concepts—that can be used together or …
Lesser Living Creatures of the Renaissance
Volume 1, Insects
Av Keith Botelho, Keith Botelho m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
440 kr
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Lesser Living Creatures examines literary and cultural texts from early modern England in order to understand how people in that era thought about—and with—insect and arachnid life. Designed for the classroom, the book comprises two volumes—Insects and Concepts—that can be used together or …
Lesser Living Creatures of the Renaissance
Volume 2, Concepts
Av Keith Botelho, Joseph Campana
Inbunden, 2023
1178 kr
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Lesser Living Creatures examines literary and cultural texts from early modern England in order to understand how people in that era thought about—and with—insect and arachnid life. The conversations in this two-volume set address the collaborative, multigenerational research that produced early …
Lesser Living Creatures of the Renaissance
Volume 2, Concepts
Av Keith Botelho, Keith Botelho m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
417 kr
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Lesser Living Creatures examines literary and cultural texts from early modern England in order to understand how people in that era thought about—and with—insect and arachnid life. The conversations in this two-volume set address the collaborative, multigenerational research that produced early …
Maritime Animals
Ships, Species, Stories
Inbunden, 2023
1472 kr
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This volume explores nonhuman animals’ involvement with human maritime activities in the age of sail—as well as the myriad multispecies connections formed across different geographical locations knitted together by the long history of global ship movement. Far from treating the ship as a confined …
