Making Animal Meaning
1st Edition
Published on 1. December 2012
213 pages
978-1-60917-234-3 (ISBN)
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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 include voices from a broad range of scholars and have an extensive chronological and geographical reach. These exciting discourses capture the most compelling theoretical underpinnings of animal significance while exploring meaning-making through the study of specific spaces, species, and human-animal relations. A deeply thoughtful collection vital to understanding central questions of agency, kinship, and animal consumption these essays tackle the history and philosophy of constructing animal meaning.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part 1: Making New Animal Meanings
- Animal Writes: Historiography, Disciplinarity, and the Animal Trace
- Mobility and the Making of Animal Meaning: The Kinetics of "Vermin" and "Wildlife" in Southern Africa
- Cannibalism, Consumption, and Kinship in Animal Studies
- Part 2: Applying New Animal Meanings
- The Renaissance Transformation of Animal Meaning: From Petrarch to Montaigne
- On the Trail of the Devil Cat: Hunting for the Jaguar in the United States and Mexico
- Animal Deaths and the Written Record of History: The Politics of Pet Obituaries
- Golden Retrievers Are White, Pit Bulls Are Black, and Chihuahuas Are Hispanic: Representations of Breeds of Dog and Issues of Race in Popular Culture
- Interspecies Families, Freelance Dogs, and Personhood: Saved Lives and Being One at an Assistance Dog Agency
- Animal Meaning in T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
- Animals at the End of the World: Notes toward a Transspecies Eschatology
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
