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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kalof, Linda.

Montgomery, Georgina M.

Series:

Animal turn.

The animal turn

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-animal relationships.

Animals--Psychological aspects.

Animals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (213 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An elucidating collection of ten original essays, Making Animal Meaning reconceptualizes methods for researching animal histories and rethinks the contingency of the human-animal relationship. The vibrant and diverse field of animal studies is detailed in these interdisciplinary discussions, which include voices from a broad range of scholars and have an extensive chronological and geographical reach. These exciting discourses capture the most compelling theoretical underpinnings of animal significance while exploring meaning-making through the study of specific spaces, species, and human-ani

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-60917-234-5

OCLC:

778436389