Making animal meaning / edited by Linda Kalof and Georgina M. Montgomery.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kalof, Linda.

Montgomery, Georgina M.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Animal turn

The animal turn

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-animal relationships.

Animals--Psychological aspects.

Animals.

Physical Description:

xiii, 197 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2011]

Summary:

This wide-ranging set of essays explores the varied ways in which humans have sought to understand animals as they are drawn or compelled to enter human cultures. Sheep and jaguars, gorillas and hamsters, cats and dogs, pets and pests, predators and prey, all jostle here with writers from diverse academic disciplines, who would make sense of the multifarious lives and relations shared by animals and humans. Kalof and Montgomery's challenging collection helps us to appreci ate the complex, conflicting, and complementary ways of making animal meaning. -Tom Tyler, Oxford Brookes University

A valuable contribution to theorizing what other animals mean to humans and how animals themselves create meaning. These original essays provide insight into how meanings are constructed and played out in specific contexts. The volume covers impressive ground-across disciplines, geographic locations, and time periods-while simultaneously maintaining its interesting focus. -Amy J. Fitzgerald, author of Animal Abuse and Family Violence: Researching the Interrelationships of Abusive Power and co-editor of The Animals Reader. The Essential Classic and Contemporary Writings

With essays exploring both broad methodological questions and more narrow case studies, Making Animal Meaning offers critical insights into the complex ways animals and humans shape each other's lives, while also providing readers with needed reflections on the field of Animal Studies. -Nigel Rothfels, author of Savages and Beasts: The Birth of the Modern Zoo Book jacket.

Contents:

Animal writes : historiography, disciplinarity, and the animal trace / Etienne Benson

Mobility and the making of animal meaning : the kinetics of "vermin" and "wildlife" in southern Africa / Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga

Cannibalism, consumption, and kinship in animal studies / Analía Villagra

The Renaissance transformation of animal meaning : from Petrarch to Montaigne / Benjamin Arbel

On the trail of the devil cat : hunting for the jaguar in the United States and Mexico / Sharon Wilcox Adams

Animal deaths and the written record of history : the politics of pet obituaries / Jane Desmond

Golden retrievers are white, pit bulls are black, and chihuahuas are Hispanic : representations of breeds of dog and issues of race in popular culture / Meisha Rosenberg

Interspecies families, freelance dogs, and personhood : saved lives and being one at an assistance dog agency / Avigdor Edminster

Animal meaning in T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's book of practical cats / Stacy Rule

Animals at the end of the world : notes toward a transspecies eschatology / Casey R. Riffel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

1611860164

9781611860160

OCLC:

720634727

Publisher Number:

99946502977