A cultural history of animals / general editors, Linda Kalof and Brigitte Resl.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kalof, Linda.

Pohl-Resl, Brigitte

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animals and civilization.

Human-animal relationships--History.

Human-animal relationships.

History.

Physical Description:

6 volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

English edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, UK ; New York : Berg, 2007.

Summary:

Human culture is now more dangerous to nonhuman animals than ever before. The destruction of natural habitats and the killing of animals for food, science, medicine or trophy-sometimes to the point of extinction-is the stuff of newspaper headlines. We live in a time when the idea of an animal's habitat has almost become irrelevant, except as a historical curiosity, yet also in a time when the public and philosophical acknowledgement of animal rights and environmental ethics is on the rise.

Animals are enmeshed in human culture simply because people are so interested in them. Animals remain central to our sense of the natural world. Our pets are often seen as our closest companions through life. At the same time, the last century has seen the use of animals in scientific experimentation and major changes in industrial-scale animal farming. Never has the relationship between human and nonhuman animals been more hotly contested.

As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Animals set, this volume presents an overview of the period and continues with essays on the position of animals in contemporary Symbolism, Hunting, Domestication, Entertainment, Science, Philosophy and Art.

Contents:

v. 1. In antiquity

v. 2. In the medieval age

v. 3. In the Renaissance

v. 4. In the Age of Enlightenment

v.5. In the Age of Empire

v. 6. In the modern age.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781845204969

1845204964

OCLC:

162507329

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