A Cultural History of Animals in the Modern Age
Boehrer, Bruce (EDT)
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
Human culture is now more dangerous to nonhuman animals than ever before. The destruction of natural habitats and the killing of animals for food, science, medicine or trophy -- sometimes to the point of extinction -- is the stuff of newspaper headlines. We live in a time when the idea of an animal's habitat has almost become irrelevant, except as a historical curiosity, yet also in a time when the public and philosophical acknowledgement of animal rights and environmental ethics is on the rise. Animals are enmeshed in human culture simply because people are so interested in them. Animals remain central to our sense of the natural world. Our pets are often seen as our closest companions through life. At the same time, the last century has seen the use of animals in scientific experimentation and the major changes in industrial-scale animal farming. Never has the relationship between human and non-human animals been more hotly contested. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Animals, this volume presents an overview of the period and continues with essays on the position of animals in contemporary Symbolism, Hunting, Domestication, Sports and Entertainment, Science, Philosophy, and Art. Volume 6 in the Cultural History of Animals edited by Linda Kalof and Brigitte Resl
AUTHOR BIO
Randy Malamud is Professor of English at Georgia State University, author of Reading Zoos: Representations of Animals and Captivity and Poetic Animals and Animal Souls.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: Famous Animals in Modern Culture, Randy Malamud, Georgia State University * 1. The Golden Spider and Her World-Wide Web: Sacred and Symbolic Animals in the Era of Change, Boria Sax, Mercy College * 2. Hunting in the Modern Age, Garry Marvin, Roehampton University * 3. The Present and Future of Animal Domestication, Margo DeMello, Albuquerque TVI College, New Mexico * 4. Zoo Animals as Entertainment Exhibitions, David Hancocks, Royal Institute of British Architects,, Australia * 5. Scientific Animals: The Laboratory and its Human-Animal Relations, from Dba to Dolly, Karen Rader, Virginia Commonwealth University * 6. Animal Philosophy: Ethics and Zoontology, Ralph Acampora, Hofstra University * 7. Animals in Twentieth Century Art, Jonathan Burt, Independent Scholar, UK * Notes * Bibliography * Index
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ISBN: 184520381X
ISBN(13-digit): 9781845203818
Dewey Decimal: 301
Book Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 249
