Routledge Handbook of HumanAnimal Studies Routledge International Handbooks

"The Routledge Handbook of Human-Animal Studies presents a collection of original essays from artists and scholars who have established themselves internationally on the basis of specific and significant new contributions to human-animal studies. It offers a broad interpretive account of the development and present configurations of the field of human-animal studies across many cultures, continents, and times."-- Publisher's Web site The Handbook of Human-Animal Studios is an ambitious, rich webbing of essays in an emergent, multi-dimensional niche-space of contemporary trans-disciplinary studies; as the editors put it in their seductive introduction: "critters and scholars alike, we are in it together." Together the essays both confront the arrogance of human exceptionalism and nurture the perceptual and analytical skills to inhabit bumptious and challenging human-animal studies. The Handbook layers the kind of compost that can remix the wastes and resources of post-humanism into something more nourishing for these times of excess, death, and still possible resilience - Donna Haraway, author of When Species Meet, Human-animal studies, an academic field that has grown exponentially over the past decade the whys, hows, and whats of human-animal relations: why animals are represented and configured in different ways in human cultures and societies around the world; how they are imagined, experienced and given significance; what these relationships might signify about being human; and what about these relationships might be improved for the sake of the individuals as well as the communities concerned. The Routledge Handbook of Human-Animal Studies presents a collection of original essays from artists and scholars who have established themselves internationally on the basis of specific and significant new contributions that are shaping the field. Offering a broad interpretive account of the development and present configurations of human-animal studies across many cultures, continents, and times, this volume explores such subject as: wildness and tameness of animals in field and laboratory science, ancient, indigenous, and industrial practices of animal husbandry, politics and aesthetics of representing feral life, human and animal implications of mourning, grief, death, and extinction. This international, interdisciplinary handbook will be of interest to students and scholars of human-animal studies, offering entry points through anthropology, archaeology, art history, biology, cultural studies, education, environmental studies, ethology, fine art, gender studies, geography, history, literature, media studies, museum studies, performance studies, philosophy, psychology, religious studies, sociology, and visual studies In it Together: an Introduction to Human-Animal Studies by Garry Marvin and Susan McHugh 1. Mammoths in the Landscape by Nigel Rothfels 2. Domesticating Practices: The Case of Arabian Babblers by Vinciane Despret 3. Escaping the Maze: Wildness and Tameness in Studying Animal Behaviour by Lynda Birke 4. Wherever I Lay my Cat? Post-Human Crowding and the Meaning of Home by Tora Holmberg 5. On a Wing and a Prayer: Butterflies in Contemporary Art by Giovanni Aloi 6. 'This Ain't Agriculture' by Bernard Rollin 7. Beyond the Wild, the Feral, and the Domestic: Lessons from Prehistoric Crete by Kerry Harris and Yannis Hamilakis 8. Netherworld Envoy or Man's Best Friend? Attitudes toward Dogs in the Ancient World by Sophia Menache 9. The Material Culture of Pet Keeping by Katherine C. Grier 10. The Adored and the Abhorrent: Nationalism and Feral Cats in England and Australia by Adrian Franklin 11. Animal Conceptions in Animism and Conservation: their Rootedness in Distinct Longue Duree Notions of Life and Death by Istvan Praet 12. The Emptiness of the Wild by Philip Armstrong and Annie Potts 13. Feral Attraction: Art, Becoming, and Erasure by Bryndis Snaebjoernsdottir and Mark Wilson 14. Becoming Rhinoceros: Therio-Theatricality as Problem and Promise in Western Drama by Una Chaudhuri 15. Bestial Imaginings by Kathy Rudy 16. Embodying the Feral: Indigenous Traditions and the Nonhuman in some Recent South African Novels by Wendy Woodward 17. Going Wild in Space: The Porous Boundaries of Wild Animal Geographies by Henry Buller 18. Relationships between Sami Reindeer Herders, Lands, and Reindeer by Elina Helander-Renvall 19. Kinship Imaginaries: Children's Stories of Wild Friendships, Fear, and Freedom by Leesa Fawcett 20. Mourning Crows: Grief and Extinction in a Shared World by Thom van Dooren 21. Dead, Dead, Dead, Dead, Dead by Steve Baker Human-animal studies is an academic field that has grown exponentially over the past decade. It explores the whys, hows, and whats of human-animal relations: why animals are represented and configured in different ways in human cultures and societies around the world; how they are imagined, experienced, and given significance; what these relationships might signify about being human; and what about these relationships might be improved for the sake of the individuals as well as the communities concerned. The Routledge Handbook of Human-Animal Studies presents a collection of original essays from artists and scholars who have established themselves internationally on the basis of specific and significant new contributions to human-animal studies. This international, interdisciplinary handbook will be of interest to students and scholars of human-animal studies, sociology, anthropology, biology, environmental studies, geography, cultural studies, history, philosophy, media studies, gender studies, literature, psychology, ethology, and visual studies. Human-animal studies explores the ways that animals are configured in human cultures. It is an interdisciplinary field that has grown rapidly over the past decade. The Handbook of Human-Animal Studies is a one-stop guide to the subject area, with overviews of the many distinct areas which go together to form the field