Ten essays by contributors in cultural anthropology, sociology, environmental studies, and women's studies offer interdisciplinary perspectives on the relationship between humans and animals, demonstr
We live more intimately with nonhuman animals than ever before in history. The change in the way we cohabitate with animals can be seen in the way we treat them when they die. There is an almost infin
Every day, millions of people around the world sit down to a meal that includes meat. This book explores several questions as it examines the use of animals as food: How did the domestication and prod
An elucidating collection of ten original essays, "Making Animal Meaning "reconceptualizes methods for researching animal histories and rethinks the contingency of the human-animal relationship. The v
Bringing together leading scholars from Belgium, Canada, France, and the United States,French Thinking about Animals makes available for the first time to an Anglophone readership a rich variety of in
The intriguing question in the title comes from an inscription on the collar of a dog Alexander Pope gave to the Prince of Wales. When Pope wrote the famous couplet “I am his Highness’ Dog at Kew, / P
O'Connor (archeological science, U. of York) helps to untangle the complex relationships we have established with a wide variety of animals over time, a series of "commensal" relationships, with or wi
