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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 | |