| Description |
xiii, 325 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
1. In the shadow of all this death / Deborah Bird Rose -- 2. Human and animal space in historic 'pet' cemeteries in London, New York and Paris / Hilda Kean -- 3. Necessary expendability: an exploration of nonhuman death in public / Tarsh Bates and Megan Schlipalius -- 4. Confronting corpses and theatre animals / Peta Tait -- 5. Respect for the (animal) dead / Chloë Taylor -- 6. Re-membering Sirius: animal death, rites of mourning, and the (material) cinema of spectrality / George Ioannides -- 7. Mining animal death for all it's worth / Melissa Boyde -- 8. Reflecting on donkeys: images of death and redemption / Jill Bough -- 9. Picturing cruelty: chicken advocacy and visual culture / Annie Potts and Philip Armstrong -- 10. Learning from dead animals: horse sacrifice in ancient Salamis and the Hellenisation of Cyprus / Agata Mrva-Montoya -- 11. The last image: Julia Leigh's The hunter as film / Carol Freeman -- 12. Euthanasia and morally justifiable killing in a veterinary clinical context / Anne Fawcett -- 13. Preventing and giving death at the zoo: Heini Hediger's 'death due to behaviour' / Matthew Chrulew -- 14. Nothing to see - something to see: white animals and exceptional life/death / Fiona Probyn-Rapsey -- 15. 'Death-in-life': curare, restrictionism and abolitionism in Victorian and Edwardian anti-vivisectionist thought / Greg Murrie -- 16. Huskies and hunters: living and dying in Arctic Greenland / Rick De Vos -- 17. On having a furry soul: transpecies identity and ontological indeterminacy in Otherkin subcultures / Jay Johnston |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Animal rights
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Animal welfare -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Animals
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Human-animal relationships
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| Author |
Johnston, Jay, editor.
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Probyn-Rapsey, Fiona, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781743320235 (paperback) |
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