DeMello, Margo.
New York : Columbia University Press, ©2012.
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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• pt. I. Constructing animals : animal categories — 1. Human-animal studies — Understanding animals and their uses — Real-world implications of human-animal studies — Coming to animal studies / Susan McHugh — 2. Animal-human borders — Non-Western understandings — Speciesism and the rise of the human-animal border — Evolution and the continuity between the species — 3. The social construction of animals — Systems of classification — The sociozoologic scale — The joy of chickens / Annie Potts — pt. II. Using animals : human-animal economies — 4. Animals in the wild and in human societies — Animals and humans in the Paleolithic Era — Subsistence hunting and the human-animal relationship — From subsistence to sport — Colonial expansion and animals — Hunting and conservation — Human-wildlife conflicts — The colonial animal / Walter Putnam — 5. The domestication of animals — History of domestication — Results of domestication — Altering the animal body — Coming to animals / Molly Mullin — 6. Display, performance, and sport — Zoos — Marine mammal parks — Circuses — Animal racing — Animal fighting — Working from within : an ethnographer in human-animal worlds / Garry Marvin — 7. The making and consumption of meat — Meat taboos — Meat consumption in the past — Modern meat production — The political economy of agribusiness — Slaughterhouse workers — Cultural implications of modern meat production and consumption — Ethics and meat eating — 8. The pet animal — Rise of pet keeping — Development of the modern pet industry — Human-pet relationship — Love and grief — Development of humane attitudes through pets — Contradictory attitudes toward pets — Pets and domination — Helping people, helping pets : working with VET SOS / Cheryl Joseph — 9. Animals and science — History of vivisection — Scope of animal research and testing — Animals as stand-ins for humans — Social construction of the lab animal — History of the anti-vivisection movement — Alternatives to animal resear
• pt. III. Attitudes toward animals — 11. Working with animals — Ethnographic fieldwork — Animal rescue volunteers — Shelter workers and veterinarians — Ranchers — Laboratory workers — Slaughterhouse workers — Working with people who work with animals / Clinton Sanders — 12. Violence to animals — Institutionalized violence to animals — Culture-specific violence — Deviant violence — The link between violence to animals and violence to humans — Domestic violence and animal abuse — Treatment and prevention — Legislation — AniCare : treating animal abuse / Kenneth Shapiro — 13. Human oppression and animal suffering — Interlinked systems of exploitation — Roots of oppression — Othering and essentializing — Sexism and speciesism — Racism, slavery, the Holocaust, and animal exploitation — Racism and animal advocacy — Capitalism and the expansion of oppression — Connecting the dots : legitimating oppressions / David Nibert — pt. IV. Imagining animals : animals as symbol — 14. Animals in human thought — Use of animals in human language — Animals as symbols — Animals in artwork — Mirrors for human identities — Animals and the creative arts / Carol Gigliotti — 15. Animals in religion and folklore — Animals in religious thought — Animal tales — animal-human transformations — Religious symbolism — Animal cults — Sacrificial lambs — Communities of faith and the ethical treatment of animals — What do animals and religion have to do with each other? / Laura Hobgood-Oster — 16. Animals in literature and film — Animals in literature — Animals in children’s literature — Talking animals — Animals in film and TV — Literary animal encounters / Philip Armstrong — pt. V. Knowing and relating to animals : animal behavior and animal ethics — 17. Animal behavior studies and ethology — Animal behavior studies and reductionism — Rise of modern ethology — Anthropomorphism — Animal intelligence — Animal emotions — Animal language — The animal self — Doing and saying in play between dogs

Subjects:

• Human-animal relationships.
• Human-animal relationships — History.
• Animals and civilization — History.

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