Representing animals / Nigel Rothfels, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rothfels, Nigel.

Series:

Theories of contemporary culture ; v. 26.

Theories of contemporary culture ; v. 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-animal relationships.

Animals--Psychological aspects.

Animals.

Physical Description:

xv, 235 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2002]

Summary:

Representing Animals explores the complex and often surprisingconnections between our imagining of animals and our cultural environment. Thecontributors -- historians, literary critics, anthropologists, artists, arthistorians, and scholars of cultural studies -- examine the ways we talk, write, photograph, imagine, and otherwise represent animals. The book includes topics suchas pet cloning, fox hunting, animatronic characters, and how we displace our fear ofaging onto our dogs. Representing Animals demonstrates the deepconnections between the way we think about animals and the way we have thought aboutourselves and our cultures in different times and places. Its publication marks aformative moment in the emerging field of animalstudies. Contributors: Steve Baker, Marcus Bullock, JaneDesmond, Erica Fudge, Andrew Isenberg, Kathleen Kete, Akira Mizuta Lippit, TeresaMangum, Garry Marvin, Susan McHugh, and Nigel Rothfels.

Contents:

Part 1 Animals in History

1. A Left-Handed Blow: Writing the History of Animals / Erica Fudge 3

2. Animals and Ideology: The Politics of Animal Protection in Europe / Kathleen Kete 19

3. Dog Years, Human Fears / Teresa Mangum 35

4. The Moral Ecology of Wildlife / Andrew C. Isenberg 48

Part 2 The Animal Object

5. What Does Becoming-Animal Look Like? / Steve Baker 67

6. Watching Eyes, Seeing Dreams, Knowing Lives / Marcus Bullock 99

7. ... From Wild Technology to Electric Animal / Akira Mizuta Lippit 119

Part 3 Cultures of Animals

8. Unspeakability, Inedibility, and the Structures of Pursuit in the English Foxhunt / Garry Marvin 139

9. Displaying Death, Animating Life: Changing Fictions of "Liveness" from Taxidermy to Animatronics / Jane Desmond 159

10. Bitches from Brazil: Cloning and Owning Dogs through the Missyplicity Project / Susan McHugh 180

11. Immersed with Animals / Nigel Rothfels 199.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

025334154X

025321551X

OCLC:

49383596