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 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