Killing Animals

Name: Killing Animals
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ISBN: 9780252030505

ISBN-10: 0252030508

ISBN-13: 9780252030505

Edition: 2006

Authors: Animal Studies Group

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Though not often acknowledged openly, killing represents by far the most common form of human interaction with animals. Humans kill animals for food, for pleasure, to wear, and even as religious acts, yet despite the ubiquity of this killing, analyzing the practice has generally remained the exclusive purview of animal rights advocates. Killing Animals offers a corrective to this narrow focus by bringing together the insights of scholars from diverse backgrounds in the humanities, including art history, anthropology, intellectual history, philosophy, literary studies, and geography. With killing representing the ultimate expression of human power over animals, the essays reveal the…

Book details

List price: $95.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 5/9/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



Wild Killing: Contesting the Animal in Hunting




What Is Doing the Killing? Animal Attacks, Man-Eaters, and Shifting Boundaries and Flows of Human-Animal Relations




Pangs Watched in Perpetuity: Sir Edwin Landseer's Pictures of Dying Deer and the Ethos of Victorian Sportsmanship




"You Kill Things to Look at Them": Animal Death in Contemporary Art




Two Ethics: Killing Animals in the Past and the Present




Conflicts around Slaughter in Modernity




BSE, Hysteria, and the Representation of Animal Death: Deborah Levy's Diary of a Steak




Killing Animals in Animal Shelters



Conclusion: A Conversation


Index