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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821465603321

Autore

Haraway Donna Jeanne

Titolo

When species meet / / Donna J. Haraway

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8166-5403-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 Online-Ressource (438 Seiten)

Collana

Posthumanities

Disciplina

179/.3

Soggetti

Animals and civilization

Human-animal relationships

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- PART I. WE HAVE NEVER BEEN HUMAN -- 1. When Species Meet: Introductions -- 2. Value-Added Dogs and Lively Capital -- 3. Sharing Suffering: Instrumental Relations between Laboratory Animals and Their People -- 4. Examined Lives: Practices of Love and Knowledge in Purebred Dogland -- 5. Cloning Mutts, Saving Tigers: Bioethical Angst and Questions of Flourishing -- PART II. NOTES OF A SPORTSWRITER'S DAUGHTER -- 6. Able Bodies and Companion Species -- 7. Species of Friendship -- 8. Training in the Contact Zone: Power, Play, and Invention in the Sport of Agility -- PART III. TANGLED SPECIES -- 9. Crittercam: Compounding Eyes in Naturecultures -- 10. Chicken -- 11. Becoming Companion Species in Technoculture -- 12. Parting Bites: Nourishing Indigestion -- Notes -- Publication History -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

Sommario/riassunto

Donna J. Haraway contemplates the interactions of humans with many kinds of critters, especially with those called domestic. From designer pets to lab animals to trained therapy dogs, she deftly explores philosophical, cultural, and biological aspects of animalÐhuman encounters.In this deeply personal yet intellectually groundbreaking work, Haraway develops the idea of companion species, those who meet and break bread together but not without some indigestion.