Animals and Ourselves
Essays on Connections and Blurred Boundaries
Published on 13. October 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
293 pages
978-1-4766-7173-4 (ISBN)
Description
The relationship between humans and animals has always been strong, symbiotic and complicated. Animals, real and fictional, have been a mainstay in the arts and entertainment, figuring prominently in literature, film, television, social media, and live performances. Increasingly, though, people are anthropomorphizing animals, assigning them humanoid roles, tasks and identities. At the same time, humans, such as members of the furry culture or college mascots, find pleasure in adopting animal identities and characteristics. This book is the first of its kind to explore these growing phenomena across media. The contributors to this collection represent various disciplines, to include the arts, humanities, social sciences, and healthcare. Their essays demonstrate the various ways that human and animal lives are intertwined and constantly evolving.
Reviews / Votes
"Engaging collection of essays... This group of essays should make us think-about our values, our myths, and our assumed place within the animal kingdom. ...recommended"-Choice "Animals and Ourselves addresses a host of fascinating questions associated with the blurring of the distinction between human and other species. How have TV nature documentaries changed our views of animals? What is fueling the rapid increase in cosmetic surgeries for dogs? Should nonhuman animals be considered persons or property under the law? Can 'furries' find happiness through on-line dating services? Do robotic pets make good therapists? This collection of essays offers an eclectic and intellectually satisfying tour of the myriad roles of animals in modern psychological life and in popular culture."-Hal Herzog, author of Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About AnimalsMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Jefferson, NC
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
bibliographies, index
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
558 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4766-7173-4 (9781476671734)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Kathy Merlock Jackson, a professor of media and communication at Virginia Wesleyan University, teaches courses in media studies and children's culture. She is the author or editor of thirteen books and former editor of The Journal of American Culture. She has served as past president of both the American Culture Association and the Popular Culture Association. Kathy Shepherd Stolley is a professor of sociology at Virginia Wesleyan University, where her emphasis is applied sociology. She was the school's first associate dean for innovative teaching and engaged learning. Her scholarship has appeared in various professional journals and she has authored or co-edited six books. Lisa Lyon Payne is a communication professor at Virginia Wesleyan University, where she focuses on journalism and public relations. She advises the student newspaper and is editor of College Media Review, the flagship journal of the College Media Association. She has authored or co-authored a book and over twenty book chapters and journal articles in the areas of college media, popular culture, crisis communication, reputation management and public relations theory development.
Content
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction (Kathy Merlock Jackson, Lisa Lyon Payne
and Kathy Shepherd Stolley)
Part I. Representations: Images of Animals in Media
Animal/Human Relations in Two Prairie Tales by L. Frank Baum (Mark I. West)
Cultivating Conservation: Childhood and Animalhood in the Fiction
of Ernest Thompson Seton (Martin Woodside)
Mister Ed, 1960s Television and the Horse Who Was Not Just a Horse (Kathy Merlock Jackson)
Blurred Laughter: How Disney and Pixar Animated Films Teach Children to Laugh Like Animals (Terry Lindvall)
Surprisingly Human: Producing Nonhuman Selves for Human
Entertainment (Candace Korasick)
Fargo: Morality in the "Animal" Kingdom (Lynnette Porter)
Beautiful Cockroaches and Featherless Birds: Anthropomorphism
in Books for Latinx Children (Stacy -Hoult-Saros)
Friend or Food? The Limits of Anthropomorphism at Disney (Kristi Maxwell)
Part II. Relationships: Interactions Between Humans and Animals
From Trauma to Trust: The Convoluted Relationship Between Jews
and Dogs Hadas Marcus and Tammy -Bar-Joseph
No Room in the Boat? Pets vs. People in Disaster Relief Efforts
(Amy J. Lantinga)
Mirrored Caregiving: Chronic Illness in the Human/Animal
Household (Terri Kovach)
I Told the Dog First: The Delicate Relationship Between Marginalized
Youth and Animals (Jeffrey Jin and Katharine Wenocur)
Japanese People Adore Their Animals (Jill S. Grigsby)
The "Soul" of the Circus: What Animals Under the Big Top Continue
to Teach Their Audiences (Mort Gamble)
Part Iii. Reflections: Cultural Analysis
of Human/Animal Blurring From Tusk to Tail: Understanding the Animal Attraction to College Mascots (Lisa Lyon Payne)
Body Boundaries: Animal Body Adornment, Lifestyle Holism
and Cosmetic Surgeries (Kathy Shepherd Stolley)
Farewell, Flipper: Sending Dolphins Back to the Sea (Jay Alabaster)
Horses in Hats, Frogs in Frocks (Elizabeth A. Larsen)
Animals and the Law: Persons or Property? (George S. Jackson)
The -Cross-Cultural Animal: -Human-Animal Interactions
in American Study Abroad Marketing (Jennifer R. Auerbach and Jonathan Z. Friedman)
Presenting One's Self as a Furry: What Does This Mean? (Jackie Eller, Jacob Lax and Mary De La Torre)
The Story of PARO, a Robotic Harp Seal Pup (Yoko Sakuma Crume)
Selective Bibliography
Camille McCutcheon
About the Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction (Kathy Merlock Jackson, Lisa Lyon Payne
and Kathy Shepherd Stolley)
Part I. Representations: Images of Animals in Media
Animal/Human Relations in Two Prairie Tales by L. Frank Baum (Mark I. West)
Cultivating Conservation: Childhood and Animalhood in the Fiction
of Ernest Thompson Seton (Martin Woodside)
Mister Ed, 1960s Television and the Horse Who Was Not Just a Horse (Kathy Merlock Jackson)
Blurred Laughter: How Disney and Pixar Animated Films Teach Children to Laugh Like Animals (Terry Lindvall)
Surprisingly Human: Producing Nonhuman Selves for Human
Entertainment (Candace Korasick)
Fargo: Morality in the "Animal" Kingdom (Lynnette Porter)
Beautiful Cockroaches and Featherless Birds: Anthropomorphism
in Books for Latinx Children (Stacy -Hoult-Saros)
Friend or Food? The Limits of Anthropomorphism at Disney (Kristi Maxwell)
Part II. Relationships: Interactions Between Humans and Animals
From Trauma to Trust: The Convoluted Relationship Between Jews
and Dogs Hadas Marcus and Tammy -Bar-Joseph
No Room in the Boat? Pets vs. People in Disaster Relief Efforts
(Amy J. Lantinga)
Mirrored Caregiving: Chronic Illness in the Human/Animal
Household (Terri Kovach)
I Told the Dog First: The Delicate Relationship Between Marginalized
Youth and Animals (Jeffrey Jin and Katharine Wenocur)
Japanese People Adore Their Animals (Jill S. Grigsby)
The "Soul" of the Circus: What Animals Under the Big Top Continue
to Teach Their Audiences (Mort Gamble)
Part Iii. Reflections: Cultural Analysis
of Human/Animal Blurring From Tusk to Tail: Understanding the Animal Attraction to College Mascots (Lisa Lyon Payne)
Body Boundaries: Animal Body Adornment, Lifestyle Holism
and Cosmetic Surgeries (Kathy Shepherd Stolley)
Farewell, Flipper: Sending Dolphins Back to the Sea (Jay Alabaster)
Horses in Hats, Frogs in Frocks (Elizabeth A. Larsen)
Animals and the Law: Persons or Property? (George S. Jackson)
The -Cross-Cultural Animal: -Human-Animal Interactions
in American Study Abroad Marketing (Jennifer R. Auerbach and Jonathan Z. Friedman)
Presenting One's Self as a Furry: What Does This Mean? (Jackie Eller, Jacob Lax and Mary De La Torre)
The Story of PARO, a Robotic Harp Seal Pup (Yoko Sakuma Crume)
Selective Bibliography
Camille McCutcheon
About the Contributors
Index