Animal (Series through Reaktion Books)
Seal by
Playful and inquisitive, seals have long been interested in humans--and humans have reciprocated that interest, falling for their beauty, grace, and charm as they frolic alongside our boats or loll on sandy shores. In this newest entry in the Animal series, Victoria Dickenson traces the history of our interaction with these beautiful, fascinating swimmers, from the centuries of hunting--in which people killed countless seals for their skin, oil, and meat--to the present, when the white-furred baby seal has become one of the most potent symbols of the need for ecological conservation. Along the way, she offers an approachable account of seal biology and behavior, and she delineates the threats they face from habitat destruction and climate change. Beautifully illustrated and packed with stories from folklore, myth, and history, Seal offers a richly immersive view of a much-loved, storied creature.
ISBN: 9781780234892Publication Date: 2016-03-15
Badger by
Fierce, menacing, and mysterious, badgers have fascinated humans as living animals, abstract symbols, or commercial resources for thousands of years--often to their detriment. With their reputation for determined self-defense, they have been brutalized by hunters and sportsmen, while their association with the mythic underworld has made them idealized symbols of earth-based wisdom and their burrowing habits have resulted in their widespread persecution as pests. In this highly illustrated book, Daniel Heath Justice provides the first global cultural history of the badger in over thirty years. From the iconic European badger and its North American kin to the African honey badger and Southeast Asian hog badger, Justice considers the badger's evolution and widespread distribution alongside its current, often-imperiled status throughout the world. He travels from natural history and life in the wild to the folklore, legends, and spiritual beliefs that badgers continue to inspire, while also exploring their representation and exploitation in industry, religion, and the arts. Tracing the complex and contradictory ways in which this fascinating animal endures, Badger will appeal to anyone interested in a deeper understanding of these much-maligned creatures.
ISBN: 9781780233369Publication Date: 2015-02-15
Pig by
Known as much for their pink curly tails and pudgy snouts as their low-brow choice of diet and habitat, pigs are prevalent in popular culture--from the Three Little Pigs to Miss Piggy to Babe. Today there are more than one billion pigs on the planet, and there are countless representations of pigs and piggishness throughout the world's cultures. In Pig, Brett Mizelle provides a richly illustrated and compelling look at the long, complicated relationship between humans and these highly intelligent, sociable animals. Mizelle traces the natural and cultural history of the pig, focusing on the contradictions between our imaginative representation of pigs and the real-world truth of the ways in which pigs are prized for their meat, used as subjects in medical research, and killed in order to make hundreds of consumer products. Pig begins with the evolution of the suidae, animals that were domesticated in multiple regions 9,000 years ago, and points toward a future where pigs and humans are even more closely intertwined as a result of biomedical breakthroughs. Pig both examines the widespread art, entertainment, and literature that imagines human kinship with pigs and the development of modern industrial pork production. In charting how humans have shaped the pig and how the pig has shaped us, Mizelle focuses on the unresolved contradictions between the fiction and the reality of our relations with pigs.
ISBN: 1861899904Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Human-Animal Studies (Series through Brill)
Crossing Boundaries by
Many people feel strong bonds with nonhuman animals, and these relationships are central to much emerging scholarship in human-animal studies. Yet to study relationships is not straightforward; research often focuses on how humans affect animals or vice versa rather than on the relationships themselves. Partly, this is a consequence of the history of disciplinary divisions, particularly between natural and social sciences. In this book, contributors from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds reflect on the methodological challenges they face, and how they go about studying relationships between people and animals. The book provides fascinating insights into how research on human-animal relationships can rise to the challenges of interdisciplinarity, and help us to understand the animals with whom we bond.
ISBN: 9789004231450Publication Date: 2012-08-14
Animals at Work by
Animals at Work is founded upon a broad and unique variety of empirical research settings - animal sanctuaries, farms, slaughter-houses, veterinary practices and behind the scenes of a natural history documentary film-making team. Hamilton and Taylor apply a breadth of post-structural and post-humanist theories to establish what happens when animal-agents are brought into human networks and spaces of representation, and the artful ways in which they become integral in shared human meaning-making. Interrogating the apparent boundaries of meaning between animals and humans by taking a close-up view of those working with animals in a variety of occupational settings, the book enjoys a rare and original range of empirical research contexts from British dairy farms to the jungles of Borneo.
ISBN: 9789004235823Publication Date: 2013-03-21
Foucault and Animals by
Foucault and Animals is the first collection of its kind to explore the relevance of Michel Foucault's thought for the question of the animal. Chrulew and Wadiwel bring together essays from emerging and established scholars that illuminate the place of animals and animality within Foucault's texts, and open up his highly influential range of concepts and methods to different domains of human-animal relations including experimentation, training, zoological gardens, pet-keeping, agriculture, and consumption. Touching on themes such as madness and discourse, power and biopolitics, government and ethics, and sexuality and friendship, the volume takes the fields of Foucault studies and human-animal studies into promising new directions.
ISBN: 9789004332225Publication Date: 2016-11-10
Subject Headings for CAS
There is no limit to the subject headings that could apply to the variety of subject you could use in this course. This is a selection that is by no means exhaustive.
- Animal experimentation.
- Animal Testing Alternatives.
- Animal industry--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Animal experimentation--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Animal genetic engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects.
- Animal rights.
- Animal rights--History.
- Animal welfare.
- Animal welfare--history.
- Animal welfare--Moral and ethical aspects--Great Britain.
- Animal welfare--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- Animal welfare--Philosophy.
- Animal welfare--Political aspects.
- Animals and civilization--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Animals in literature.
- Animals--Treatment--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Animal rights.
- Animals, Zoo.
- Aquatic animal welfare.
- Captive marine mammals.
- Cognition in animals.
- Consciousness in animals.
- Domestic animals.
- Ecofeminism in literature.
- Ecocriticism in literature.
- Ecology in literature.
- Ecofeminism.
- Factory farms.
- Feminist anthropology.
- Feminist literary criticism.
- Food animals -- Moral and ethical aspects.
- Humanism.
- Human-animal relationships.
- Human-animal relationships -- Moral and ethical aspects.
- Human ecology in literature.
- Livestock.
- Nature in literature.
- Pets--Social aspects--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Patriarchy.
- Vegetarianism--Social aspects.
- Zoo animals.
- Zoos--Philosophy.