Animal Death

Fiona Probyn-Rapsey, Jay Johnston

• Publisher: Sydney University Press
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781743327005

Animal death is a complex, uncomfortable, depressing, motivating and sensitive topic. For those scholars participating in Human-Animal Studies, it is – accompanied by the concept of 'life' – the ground upon which their studies commence, whether those studies are historical, archaeological, social, philosophical, or cultural. It is a tough subject to face, but as this volume demonstrates, one at the heart of human–animal relations and human–animal studies scholarship.

Table of contents

• Animal death
• Contents
• List of figures
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• Introduction
• In the shadow of all this death
• Human and animal space in historic ‘pet’ cemeteries in London, New York and Paris
• Necessary expendability: an exploration of nonhuman death in public
• Confronting corpses and theatre animals
• Respect for the (animal) dead
• Mining animal death for all it’s worth
• Reflecting on donkeys: images of death and redemption
• Picturing cruelty: chicken advocacy and visual culture
• Learning from dead animals: horse sacrifice in ancient Salamis and the Hellenisation of Cyprus
• The last image: Julia Leigh’s The hunter as film
• Euthanasia and morally justifiable killing in a veterinary clinical context
• Preventing and giving death at the zoo: Heini Hediger’s ‘death due to behaviour’
• Nothing to see – something to see: white animals and exceptional life/death
• ‘Death-in-life’: curare, restrictionism and abolitionism in Victorian and Edwardian anti-vivisectionist thought
• Huskies and hunters: living and dying in Arctic Greenland
• On having a furry soul: transpecies identity and ontological indeterminacy in Otherkin subcultures1
• About the contributors
• Index