Animal encounters / edited by Tom Tyler and Manuela Rossini.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tyler, Tom, 1968-

Rossini, Manuela.

Series:

Human-animal studies ; v. 6.

Human-animal studies, 1573-4226 ; v. 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-animal relationships.

Animals--Psychological aspects.

Animals.

Anthropomorphism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The fast-growing field of Animal Studies is a varied and much contested domain. Engagement with animals has encouraged both collaboration and conflict between researchers within the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Animal Encounters comprises a series of meetings not only between diverse beasts, but also between distinct disciplinary methods, theoretical approaches, and ethical positions. The essays here collected come together from literary and cultural studies, sociology and anthropology, ecocriticism and art history, philosophy and feminism, science and technology studies, history and posthumanism, to study that most familiar and most foreign of creatures, ‘the animal’. These encounters between leading practitioners in the field highlight the promise and potential of interspecies exchange and mutual provocation.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / M. S. Rossini and T. Tyler

Introduction - The case of the camel / Tom Tyler

Chapter One. If horses had hands . . . / Tom Tyler

Chapter Two. Magic is afoot: Hoof marks, paw prints and the problem of writing wildly / Pamela Banting

Chapter Three. Post-meateating / Carol J. Adams

Chapter Four. Americans do weird things with animals, or, why did the chicken cross the road? / Randy Malamud

Chapter Five. Affect, friendship and the “as yet unknown”: Rat feeding experiments in early vitamin research / Robyn Smith

Chapter Six. Becoming-with-companions: Sharing and response in experimental laboratories / Donna Haraway

Chapter Seven. Invisible parts: Animals and the renaissance anatomies of human exceptionalism / Laurie Shannon

Chapter Eight. Invisible histories: Primate bodies and the rise of posthumanism in the twentieth century / Jonathan Burt

Chapter Nine. Fellow-feeling / Susan Squier

Chapter Ten. “Tangible and real and vivid and meaningful”: Lucy Kimbell’s not-knowing about rats / Steve Baker

Chapter Eleven. The predicament of zoopleasures: Human-nonhuman libidinal relations / Monika Bakke

Chapter Twelve. Comingtogether: Symbiogenesis and metamorphosis in Paul di Filippo’s a mouthful of tongues / Manuela Rossini

Index / M. S. Rossini and T. Tyler.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-39945-4

9786612399459

90-474-4258-X

OCLC:

593237855

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004168671.i-266 DOI