Routledge Handbook of Human-Animal Studies
- 332 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Routledge Handbook of Human-Animal Studies
About this book
Human-animal studies is an academic field that has grown exponentially over the past decade. It explores the whys, hows, and whats of human-animal relations: why animals are represented and configured in different ways in human cultures and societies around the world; how they are imagined, experienced, and given significance; what these relationships might signify about being human; and what about these relationships might be improved for the sake of the individuals as well as the communities concerned.
The Routledge Handbook of Human-Animal Studies presents a collection of original essays from artists and scholars who have established themselves internationally on the basis of specific and significant new contributions to human-animal studies.
This international, interdisciplinary handbook will be of interest to students and scholars of human-animal studies, sociology, anthropology, biology, environmental studies, geography, cultural studies, history, philosophy, media studies, gender studies, literature, psychology, ethology, and visual studies.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Notes on contributors
- In it together: an introduction to human-animal studies
- 1 Mammoths in the landscape
- 2 Domesticating practices: the case of Arabian babblers
- 3 Escaping the maze: wildness and tameness in studying animal behaviour
- 4 Wherever I lay my cat? Post-human crowding and the meaning of home
- 5 On a wing and a prayer: butterflies in contemporary art
- 6 ‘This ain’t agriculture’
- 7 Beyond the wild, the feral, and the domestic: lessons from prehistoric Crete
- 8 Netherworld envoy or man’s best friend? Attitudes toward dogs in the ancient world
- 9 The material culture of pet keeping
- 10 The adored and the abhorrent: nationalism and feral cats in England and Australia
- 11 Animal conceptions in animism and conservation: their rootedness in distinct longue durée notions of life and death
- 12 The emptiness of the wild
- 13 Feral Attraction: art, becoming, and erasure
- 14 Becoming rhinoceros: therio-theatricality as problem and promise in Western drama
- 15 Bestial imaginings
- 16 Embodying the feral: indigenous traditions and the nonhuman in some recent South African novels
- 17 Reconfiguring wild spaces: the porous boundaries of wild animal geographies
- 18 Relationships between Sámi reindeer herders, lands, and reindeer
- 19 Kinship imaginaries: children’s stories of wild friendships, fear, and freedom
- 20 Mourning crows: grief and extinction in a shared world
- 21 Dead, dead, dead, dead, dead
- Index