| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 235 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Theories of contemporary culture ; v. 26
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Theories of contemporary culture ; v. 26.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
A left-handed blow: writing the history of animals / Erica Fudge -- Animals and ideology: the politics of animal protection in Europe / Kathleen Kete -- Dog years, human years / Teresa Mangum -- The moral ecology of wildlife / Andrew C. Isenberg -- What does becoming-animal look like? / Steve Baker -- Watching eyes, seeing dreams, knowing lives / Marcus Bullock -- From wild technology to electric animal / Akira Mizuta Lippit -- Unspeakability, inedibility, and the structures of pursuit in the English foxhunt / Garry Marvin -- Displaying death, animating life: changing fictions of "liveness" from taxidermy to animatronics / Jane Desmond -- Bitches from brazil: cloning and owning dogs through the missyplicity project / Susan McHugh -- Immersed with animals / Nigel Rothfels. |
| Summary |
Representing Animals explores the complex and often surprising connections between our imagining of animals and our cultural environment. The contributors? historians, literary critics, anthropologists, artists, art historians, and scholars of cultural studies? examine the ways we talk, write, photograph, imagine, and otherwise represent animals. The book includes topics such as pet cloning, fox hunting, animatronic characters, and how we displace our fear of aging onto our dogs. |
| 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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| Added Author |
Rothfels, Nigel.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Representing animals. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2002 025334154X (DLC) 2002004041 (OCoLC)49383596 |
| ISBN |
0253109590 (electronic book) |
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9780253109590 (electronic book) |
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9780253341549 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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025334154X (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780253215512 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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025321551X (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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025334154X (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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025321551X (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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