Livestock/deadstock : working with farm animals from birth to slaughter / Rhoda M. Wilkie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilkie, Rhoda.

Series:

Animals Culture And Society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Livestock.

Food animals.

Human-animal relationships.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The connection between people and companion animals has received considerable attention from scholars. In her original and provocative ethnography Livestock/Deadstock, sociologist Rhoda Wilkie asks, how do the men and women who work on farms, in livestock auction markets, and slaughterhouses, interact with-or disengage from-the animals they encounter in their jobs? Wilkie provides a nuanced appreciation of how those men and women who breed, rear, show, fatten, market, medically treat, and slaughter livestock, make sense of their interactions with the animals that c

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Food Animals: More Than a "Walking Larder"?; 2. Domestication to Industry: The Commercialization of Human-Livestock Relations; 3. Women and Livestock: The Gendered Nature of Food-Animal Production; 4. "Price Discovery": Marketing and Valuing Livestock; 5. "The Good Life": Hobby Farmers and Rare Breeds of Livestock; 6. Sentient Commodities: The Ambiguous Status of Livestock; 7. Affinities and Aloofness: The Pragmatic Nature of Producer-Livestock Relations; 8. Livestock/Deadstock: Managing the Transition from Life to Death

9. Taking Stock: Food Animals, Ambiguous Relations, and Productive ContextsNotes; Glossary of Doric Terms; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781592136506

1592136508

OCLC:

646067884