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Titolo |
Making animal meaning [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Linda Kalof and Georgina M. Montgomery |
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East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, c2011 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (213 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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KalofLinda |
MontgomeryGeorgina M |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Human-animal relationships |
Animals - Psychological aspects |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Animal writes : historiography, disciplinarity, and the animal trace / Etienne Benson -- Mobility and the making of animal meaning : the kinetics of "vermin" and "wildlife" in southern Africa / Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga -- Cannibalism, consumption, and kinship in animal studies / Analía Villagra -- The Renaissance transformation of animal meaning : from Petrarch to Montaigne / Benjamin Arbel -- On the trail of the devil cat : hunting for the jaguar in the United States and Mexico / Sharon Wilcox Adams -- Animal deaths and the written record of history : the politics of pet obituaries / Jane Desmond -- Golden retrievers are white, pit bulls are black, and chihuahuas are Hispanic : representations of breeds of dog and issues of race in popular culture / Meisha Rosenberg -- Interspecies families, freelance dogs, and personhood : saved lives and being one at an assistance dog agency / Avigdor Edminster -- Animal meaning in T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's book of practical cats / Stacy Rule -- Animals at the end of the world : notes toward a transspecies eschatology / Casey R. Riffel. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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An elucidating collection of ten original essays, Making Animal Meaning reconceptualizes methods for researching animal histories and rethinks the contingency of the human-animal relationship. The vibrant and diverse field of animal studies is detailed in these interdisciplinary discussions, which include voices from a broad range of scholars and have an extensive chronological and geographical reach. These exciting |
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