Representing Animals

Name: Representing Animals
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ISBN: 9780253341549

ISBN-10: 025334154X

ISBN-13: 9780253341549

Edition: 2002

Authors: Nigel Rothfels

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There are complex & often surprising connections between our imagining of animals & our cultural environment. Topics discussed in this collection include fox hunting, pet cloning, animatronic characters & how we displace our fear of aging onto our dogs.

Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 11/28/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Nigel Rothfels received his Ph.D. in history from Harvard University and is director of the Office of Undergraduate Research at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is the editor of Representing Animals.



Introduction




Animals in History



A Left-Handed Blow: Writing the History of Animals




Animals and Ideology: The Politics of Animal Protection in Europe




Dog Years, Human Fears




The Moral Ecology of Wildlife




The Animal Object



What Does Becoming-Animal Look Like?




Watching Eyes, Seeing Dreams, Knowing Lives




... From Wild Technology to Electric Animal




Cultures of Animals



Unspeakability, Inedibility, and the Structures of Pursuit in the English Foxhunt




Displaying Death, Animating Life: Changing Fictions of "Liveness" from Taxidermy to Animatronics




Bitches from Brazil: Cloning and Owning Dogs through the Missyplicity Project




Immersed with Animals



Contributors


Index