| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 197 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome. |
| Description |
data file |
| Series |
The animal turn
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Animal turn.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Human-animal relationships.
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Human-animal relationships. |
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Animals -- Psychological aspects.
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Animals -- Psychological aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Kalof, Linda, editor.
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Montgomery, Georgina M., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Making animal meaning. East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, ©2011 9781611860160 (DLC) 2011008826 (OCoLC)720634727 |
| ISBN |
9781609172343 (electronic book) |
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1609172345 (electronic book) |
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9781628960921 (electronic book) |
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1628960922 (electronic book) |
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9781611860160 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1611860164 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9781611860566 |
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1611860563 |
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