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Zoologies : on animals and the human spirit / Alison Hawthorne Deming.
Van Pelt Library PS3554.E474 Z36 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Deming, Alison Hawthorne, 1946- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Animals.
- Human-animal relationships.
- Nature.
- Physical Description:
- 256 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2014.
- Summary:
- "Humans were surrounded by other animals from the beginning of time: they were food, clothes, adversaries, companions, jokes, and gods. And yet, our companions in evolution are leaving the world - both as physical beings and spiritual symbols - and not returning. In this collection of linked essays, Alison Hawthorne Deming asks, and seeks to answer: what does the disappearance of animals mean for human imagination and existence? Moving from mammoth hunts to dying house cats, she explores profound questions about what it means to be animal. What is inherent in animals that leads us to destroy, and what that leads us toward peace? As human animals, how does art both define us as a species and how does it emerge primarily from our relationship with other species? The reader emerges with a transformed sense of how the living world around us has defined and continues to define us in a powerful way"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Murray Springs Mammoth 12
- Spotted Hyena 19
- The Sacred Pig 23
- Crow 29
- Dog Tags 33
- Patativa (Sporophila leucoptera) 37
- Ant Art 47
- Field Notes on Hands 51
- Elephant Watching 66
- The Cheetah Run 77
- The Finback 83
- The Feasting 90
- A Dog with His Pets 101
- City of Storks 106
- The Pony, the Pig, and the Horse 115
- Dragon 124
- Black Vulture 132
- Liberating the Lobster 139
- Trumpeter Swan 149
- T. Rex 159
- Bobcat 162
- My Cat Jeffrey 166
- Feral Children 170
- Vervet 178
- Chimera 184
- Letter from Mars 190
- Wolf Spider 192
- Owl Watching in the Experimental Forest 195
- Hood River Oyster 211
- The Rabbit on Mars 215
- Field Notes on Culture, Biology, and Emergence 218
- Epilogue: The Gannet 240.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781571313485
- 1571313486
- OCLC:
- 876900728
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