Mourning Animals : Rituals and Practices Surrounding Animal Death / edited by Margo DeMello.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

DeMello, Margo, editor.

Series:

Animal turn.

The animal turn

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-animal relationships.

Animal cemeteries.

Pets--Funeral rites and ceremonies.

Pets.

Pets--Death.

Dead animals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

We live more intimately with nonhuman animals than ever before in history. The change in the way we cohabitate with animals can be seen in the way we treat them when they die. There is an almost infinite variety of ways to help us cope with the loss of our nonhuman friends--from burial, cremation, and taxidermy; to wearing or displaying the remains (ashes, fur, or other parts) of our deceased animals in jewelry, tattoos, or other artwork; to counselors who specialize in helping people mourn pets; to classes for veterinarians; to tips to help the surviving animals who are grieving their animal friends; to pet psychics and memorial websites. But the reality is that these practices, and related beliefs about animal souls or animal afterlife, generally only extend, with very few exceptions, to certain kinds of animals--pets. Most animals, in most cultures, are not mourned, and the question of an animal afterlife is not contemplated at all. Mourning Animals investigates how we mourn animal deaths, which animals are grievable, and what the implications are for all animals.

Contents:

Introduction : Who Goes to the Rainbow Bridge? : Conceptions of the Afterlife for Non-Human Animals / Margo DeMello

Photo Essay : Discarded Property / Shannon Johnstone

More than Just a Bag of Bones : A History of Animal Burials / Ivy D. Collier

Mourning the Sacrifice : Behavior and Meaning Behind Animal Burials / James Morris

Killing (Constructed) Horses : Interspecies Elders, Empathy and Emotion in the Pazyryk Horse Sacrifices / Gala Argent

The Issue of Animals' Souls within the Anglican Debate in the Eighteenth to Nineteenth Centuries / Alma Massaro

Photo Essay : Hartsdale Pet Cemetery / Liza Wallis Margulies

All the World and a Little Bit More : Pet Cemetery Practices and Contemporary Relations between Humans and Their Companion Animals / Micha Piotr Pregowski

"To All that Fly or Crawl" : A Recent History of Mourning for Animals in Korea / Elmer Veldkamp

Freeze-Drying Fido : The Uncanny Aesthetics of Modern Taxidermy / Christina Colvin

Clutching at Straws : Dogs, Death, and Frozen Semen / Chrissie Wanner

"I Remember Everything" : Children, Companion Animals and a Relational Pedagogy of Remembrance / Joshua Russell

On Cats and Contradictions : Mourning Animal Death in an English Community / Becky Tipper

"So Sorry for the Loss of Your Little Friend" : Pets' Grievability in Condolence Cards for Humans Mourning Animals / David Redmalm

Photo Essay: Claire's Last Days / Julia Schlosser

Britain at War : Remembering and Forgetting the Animal Dead of the Second World War / Hilda Kean

Now on Exhibit : Our Affection for, Remembrance of, and Tributes to Non-Human Animals in Museums / Carolyn Merino Mullin

Photo Essay: Another Death / Emma Kisiel

In the Heart of Every Horse : Combating a History of Slaughter in the Memorialization of Thoroughbred Racehorses / Tamar V.S. McKee

Creating Carnivores and Cannibals : Animal Feed and the Regulation of Grief / Keridiana Chez

Mourning the Mundane : Memorializing Road Kill in North America / Linda Monahan

Photo Essay: The Unmourned / Linda Brant

Beyond Coping : Active Mourning in the Animal Sheltering Community / Jessica Austin

Mourning for Animals : A Companion Animal Veterinarian's Perspective / Anne Fawcett

You're My Sanctuary : Grief, Vulnerability, and Unexpected Secondary Losses for Animal Advocates Mourning a Companion Animal / Nicole R. Pallotta

Keeping Ghosts Close : Care and Grief at Sanctuaries / Lori Gruen and Pattrice Jones

Grieving "at a Distance" / Teja Brooks Pribac

Photo Essay: The Death of a Pig / Jo-Anne McArthur.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781628952711

1628952717

9781609174989

1609174984

OCLC:

950934090