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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Constructing Animals: Animal Categories | |
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| Human-Animal Studies | |
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| What Is Human-Animal Studies? | |
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| History of HAS | |
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| Human-Animal Studies as a Way of Seeing | |
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| Where Are Animals? | |
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| Defining the Animal | |
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| Understanding Animals and Their Uses | |
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| Methodological Problems | |
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| Theoretical Starting Points | |
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| Real-World Implications of Human-Animal Studies | |
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| Coming to Animal Studies, by Susan McHugh | |
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| Animal-Human Borders | |
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| Animals and Humans: The Great Divide? | |
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| Non-Western Understandings | |
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| Speciesism and the Rise of the Human-Animal Border | |
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| Evolution and the Continuity Between the Species | |
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| The Social Construction of Animals | |
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| Biological Systems of Classification | |
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| Other Systems of Classification | |
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| How Does One Become a Certain Type of Animal? | |
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| The Sociozoologic Scale | |
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| A New System of Classification | |
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| The Joy of Chickens, by Annie Potts | |
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| Using Animals: Human-Animal Economies | |
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| Animals "in the Wild" and in Human Societies | |
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| Animals and Humans in the Paleolithic Era | |
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| Subsistence Hunting and the Human-Animal Relationship | |
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| From Subsistence to Sport | |
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| Colonial Expansion and Animals | |
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| Controversies Surrounding Subsistence Hunting | |
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| Modern Relationships with Wildlife: Hunting and Conservation | |
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| Human-Wildlife Conflicts | |
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| The Colonial Animal, by Walter Putnam | |
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| The Domestication of Animals | |
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| History of Domestication | |
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| Results of Domestication | |
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| Altering the Animal Body | |
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| Is Domestication Good or Bad? | |
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| Coming to Animals, by Molly Mullin | |
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| Display, Performance, and Sport | |
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| Why Do We Watch Animals? | |
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| Zoos | |
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| Marine Mammal Parks | |
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| The Public Reaction to Zoos and Marine Mammal Parks | |
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| Circuses | |
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| Animal Racing | |
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| Animal Fighting | |
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| Alternative Ways of Watching Animals | |
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| Working from Within: An Ethnographer in Human-Animal Worlds, by Garry Marvin | |
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| The Making and Consumption of Meat | |
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| Meat Taboos | |
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| How Animals Become Meat | |
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| Meat Consumption in the Past | |
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| Modern Meat Production | |
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| Why We Eat Meat: The Political Economy of Agribusiness | |
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| Slaughterhouse Workers | |
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| Cultural Implications of Modern Meat Production and Consumption | |
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| Ethics and Meat Eating | |
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| The Pet Animal | |
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| What Makes a Pet a Pet? | |
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| The Rise of Pet Keeping | |
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| The Development of the Modern Pet Industry | |
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| Why We Keep Pets | |
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| The Human-Pet Relationship | |
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| Love and Grief | |
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| Development of Humane Attitudes Through Pets | |
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| Contradictory Attitudes Toward Pets | |
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| Pets and Domination | |
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| Helping People, Helping Pets: Working with VET SOS, by Cheryl Joseph | |
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| Animals and Science | |
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| The History of Vivisection | |
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| The Scope of Animal Research and Testing | |
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| Environmental Enrichment | |
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| Animals as Stand-Ins for Humans | |
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| The Social Construction of the Lab Animal | |
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| The History of the Anti-Vivisection Movement | |
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| Alternatives to Animal Research and Testing | |
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| The Battle Over Animal Research Today | |
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| Animal-Assisted Activities | |
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| Animals as Human Assistants | |
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| Working Animals Today | |
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| Assistance Animals | |
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| Animal-Assisted Therapy | |
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| The Human-Animal Bond: Benefits to Humans | |
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| What About Benefits to Animals? | |
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| The Healing Gifts of Animals: Animal-Assisted Therapy, by Cynthia Kay Chandler | |
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| Attitudes Toward Animals | |
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| Working with Animals | |
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| Ethnographic Fieldwork | |
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| People Who Work with Animals | |
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| Animal Rescue Volunteers | |
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| Shelter Workers and Veterinarians | |
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| Ranchers | |
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| Laboratory Workers | |
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| Slaughterhouse Workers | |
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| Working with People Who Work with Animals, by Clinton Sanders | |
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| Violence to Animals | |
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| Institutionalized Violence to Animals | |
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| Culture-Specific Violence | |
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| Deviant Violence | |
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| The Link Between Violence to Animals and Violence to Humans | |
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| Domestic Violence and Animal Abuse | |
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| Treatment and Prevention | |
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| Legislation | |
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| AniCare: Treating Animal Abuse, by Kenneth Shapiro | |
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| Human Oppression and Animal Suffering | |
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| Interlinked Systems of Exploitation | |
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| The Roots of Oppression | |
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| Othering and Essentializing | |
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| Sexism and Speciesism | |
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| Racism, Slavery, the Holocaust, and Animal Exploitation | |
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| What Is the Problem with Comparisons? | |
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| Racism and Animal Advocacy | |
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| Capitalism and the Expansion of Oppression | |
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| Connecting the Dots: Legitimating Oppressions, by David Nibert | |
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| Imagining Animals: Animals as Symbol | |
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| Animals in Human Thought | |
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| The Use of Animals in Human Language | |
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| Animals as Symbols | |
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| Animals in Artwork | |
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| Mirrors for Human Identities | |
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| Animals and the Creative Arts, by Carol Gigliotti | |
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| Animals in Religion and Folklore | |
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| Animals in Religious Thought | |
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| Animal Tales | |
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| Animal-Human Transformations | |
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| Religious Symbolism | |
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| Animal Cults | |
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| Sacrificial Lambs | |
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| Communities of Faith and the Ethical Treatment of Animals | |
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| What Do Animals and Religion Have to Do with Each Other? by Laura Hobgood-Oster | |
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| Animals in Literature and Film | |
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| Animals in Literature | |
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| Animals in Children's Literature | |
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| Talking Animals | |
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| Animals in Film and TV | |
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| The Internet Is Made of Cats | |
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| Literary Animal Encounters, by Philip Armstrong | |
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| Knowing and Relating to Animals: Animal Behavior and Animal Ethics | |
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| Animal Behavior Studies and Ethology | |
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| History of Animal Behavior Studies | |
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| Animal Behavior Studies and Reductionism | |
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| The Rise of Modern Ethology | |
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| Anthropomorphism | |
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| Animal Intelligence | |
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| Animal Emotions | |
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| Animal Language | |
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| The Animal Self | |
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| Doing and Saying in Play Between Dogs and People, by Robert W. Mitchell | |
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| The Moral Status of Animals | |
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| History of Philosophical Debates on Animals | |
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| Ethical Humanism and the Rights of Animals | |
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| Peter Singer and Utilitarianism | |
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| Tom Regan and Animal Rights | |
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| Other Approaches | |
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| The Morality of Awareness, by Kathie Jenni | |
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| The Animal Protection Movement | |
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| Conserving Nature | |
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| The Movement's Precursors | |
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| The Animal Rights Movement: The First Wave | |
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| The Animal Rights Movement: The Second Wave | |
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| The Modern Animal Rights Movement | |
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| Demographics: Who Becomes an Animal Rights Activist? | |
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| Place of the Movement in Contemporary Society | |
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| The Future of the Human-Animal Relationship | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |