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Record Nr.

UNINA9910162943303321

Titolo

Mourning Animals : Rituals and Practices Surrounding Animal Death / / edited by Margo DeMello

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing : , : Michigan State University Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-62895-271-7

1-60917-498-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Collana

The animal turn

Disciplina

591.6

Soggetti

Human-animal relationships

Animal cemeteries

Pets - Funeral rites and ceremonies

Pets - Death

Dead animals

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : Who Goes to the Rainbow Bridge? : Conceptions of the Afterlife for Non-Human Animals / Margo DeMello -- Photo Essay : Discarded Property / Shannon Johnstone -- More than Just a Bag of Bones : A History of Animal Burials / Ivy D. Collier -- Mourning the Sacrifice : Behavior and Meaning Behind Animal Burials / James Morris -- Killing (Constructed) Horses : Interspecies Elders, Empathy and Emotion in the Pazyryk Horse Sacrifices / Gala Argent -- The Issue of Animals' Souls within the Anglican Debate in the Eighteenth to Nineteenth Centuries / Alma Massaro -- Photo Essay : Hartsdale Pet Cemetery / Liza Wallis Margulies -- All the World and a Little Bit More : Pet Cemetery Practices and Contemporary Relations between Humans and Their Companion Animals / Micha Piotr Pregowski -- "To All that Fly or Crawl" : A Recent History of Mourning for Animals in Korea / Elmer Veldkamp -- Freeze-Drying Fido : The Uncanny Aesthetics of Modern Taxidermy / Christina Colvin -- Clutching at Straws : Dogs, Death, and Frozen Semen / Chrissie Wanner -- "I Remember



Everything" : Children, Companion Animals and a Relational Pedagogy of Remembrance / Joshua Russell -- On Cats and Contradictions : Mourning Animal Death in an English Community / Becky Tipper -- "So Sorry for the Loss of Your Little Friend" : Pets' Grievability in Condolence Cards for Humans Mourning Animals / David Redmalm -- Photo Essay: Claire's Last Days / Julia Schlosser -- Britain at War : Remembering and Forgetting the Animal Dead of the Second World War / Hilda Kean -- Now on Exhibit : Our Affection for, Remembrance of, and Tributes to Non-Human Animals in Museums / Carolyn Merino Mullin -- Photo Essay: Another Death / Emma Kisiel -- In the Heart of Every Horse : Combating a History of Slaughter in the Memorialization of Thoroughbred Racehorses / Tamar V.S. McKee -- Creating Carnivores and Cannibals : Animal Feed and the Regulation of Grief / Keridiana Chez -- Mourning the Mundane : Memorializing Road Kill in North America / Linda Monahan -- Photo Essay: The Unmourned / Linda Brant -- Beyond Coping : Active Mourning in the Animal Sheltering Community / Jessica Austin -- Mourning for Animals : A Companion Animal Veterinarian's Perspective / Anne Fawcett -- You're My Sanctuary : Grief, Vulnerability, and Unexpected Secondary Losses for Animal Advocates Mourning a Companion Animal / Nicole R. Pallotta -- Keeping Ghosts Close : Care and Grief at Sanctuaries / Lori Gruen and Pattrice Jones -- Grieving "at a Distance" / Teja Brooks Pribac -- Photo Essay: The Death of a Pig / Jo-Anne McArthur.