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A Cultural History of Animals in the Modern Age
A Cultural History of Animals in the Modern Age
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A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2008
Human culture is now more dangerous to non-human 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 major changes in industrial-scale animal farming. Never has the relationship between human and non-human animals been more hotly contested.
A Cultural History of Animals in the Modern Age 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.
Table of Contents
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
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Index
Product details
| Published | 18 Apr 2011 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 272 |
| ISBN | 9781847888228 |
| Imprint | Berg Publishers |
| Illustrations | 48 bw illus. |
| Dimensions | 244 x 172 mm |
| Series | The Cultural Histories Series |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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