Killing animals / the Animal Studies Group.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Animal Studies Group.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal welfare.

Hunting.

Slaughtering and slaughter-houses.

Human-animal relationships.

Physical Description:

viii, 215 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2006]

Summary:

Though not often acknowledged openly, killing represents by far the most common form of human interaction with animals. Humans kill animals for food, for pleasure, to wear, and even as religious acts, yet despite the ubiquity of this killing, analyzing the practice has generally remained the exclusive purview of animal rights advocates.

Contents:

Introduction

Wild killing : contesting the animal in hunting / Garry Marvin

What is doing the killing? : animal attacks, man-eaters, and shifting boundaries and flows of human-animal relations / Chris Wilbert

Pangs watched in perpetuity : Sir Edwin Landseer's pictures of dying deer, and the ethos of Victorian sportsmanship / Diana Donald

"You kill things to look at them" : animal death in contemporary art / Steve Baker

Two ethics : killing animals in the past and the present / Erica Fudge

Conflicts around slaughter in modernity / Jonathan Burt

BSE, hysteria, and the representation of animal death : Deborah Levy's diary of a steak / Robert McKay

Killing animals in animal shelters / Clare Palmer

Conclusion: A conversation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0252030508

0252072901

OCLC:

61179612

Publisher Number:

9780252030505

9780252072901