Horse breeds and human society : purity, identity and the making of the modern horse / edited by Kristen Guest and Monica Mattfeld.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Guest, Kristen, 1967- editor.

Mattfeld, Monica, 1982- editor.

Series:

Routledge human-animal studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horses--Breeding--History.

Horses.

Horses--Social aspects.

Human-animal relationships--History.

Human-animal relationships.

History.

Animals and civilization.

Horses--Breeding.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 254 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"This book demonstrates how horse breeding is entwined with human societies and identities. It explores issues of lineage, purity, status through interconnections between animals and humans. The quest for purity in horse breeding and the acceptance of what constitutes an identifiable horse breed reflect the ways in which human beings remain subject to racialized, gendered, regionalized, and classified categorizations. Since horses make for an apt species to explore these issues, their 'breeds' are viewed as a manifestation of human classist mindset. Focusing on various horse breeds, from the Chincoteague Pony to Brazilian Criolo and the Arabian horse, each chapter carries a leading expert's insights into the ways in which breeding continues to prevail in the worlds of domesticated animals. Bringing together different historical, geographical, and disciplinary perspectives, this book will appeal to academics, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of, human-animal studies, sociology, environmental studies, cultural studies, history and literature"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Defining 'race' in the Spanish horse : the breeding program of King Philip II / Kathryn Renton

Habsburg Lipizzaners, English thoroughbreds and the paradoxes of purity / Donna Landry

Manufacturing the horse : understandings of inheritance in the long eighteenth century / Katrin Boniface

'How Northern was Pistol? The Galloway nag as self-identity and satire in an age of supra-national horse trading / Miriam Bibby

'Horse breeding is not a state affair!' State stallions, regulation and the Friesian horse / Jorieke Savelkouls

Crioulos e crioulistas : southern Brazilian equestrian culture in a changing world / Miriam Adelman and Ana Camphora

Bois y cobs : the place of autochthonous horses in rural Welsh cultural identity / Samantha Hurn

Inventing the wild horse : the manmade history of the Takhi and Tarpan from 1828-2018 / Susanna Forrest

Mustang, wild horse or breed? Reflections of American culture / Karen Dalke

Wild at heart : the Chincoteague pony and the paradox of feral 'breed' / Kristen Guest

The transition from type to breed : draft horses and purebred breeding in the international American market, 1870-1920 / Margaret Derry

The ideal horse : politics and practices of Knabstrupper breeding / Irina Wenk

The making and remaking of the Arabian horse

from the Arab Bedouin horse to the modern Straight Egyptian / Christophe Lange.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Horse breeds and human society.

ISBN:

9780367109400

0367109409

OCLC:

1128887701