Though not often acknowledged openly, killing represents by far the most common form of human interaction with animals. Humans kill animals for food, for pleasure, to wear, and even as religious acts, yet despite the ubiquity of this killing, analyzing the practice has generally remained the exclusive purview of animal rights advocates. "Killing Animals" offers a corrective to this narrow focus by bringing together the insights of scholars from diverse backgrounds in the humanities, including art history, anthropology, intellectual history, philosophy, literary studies, and geography.With killing representing the ultimate expression of human power over animals, the essays reveal the complexity of the phenomenon by exploring the extraordinary diversity in killing practices and the wide variety of meanings attached to them. They examine aspects of the role of animals in human societies, from the seventeenth century to the present day: their cultural manifestations, and how they have been represented. Topics of this title include: hunting and baiting; slaughter practices and the treatment of feral and stray animals; animal death in art, literature and philosophy; and, even animals that themselves become killers of humans.While many collections originate as a series of separately planned conference papers drawn together only by editorial fiat, the essays that comprise "Killing Animals" were regarded as parts of a larger whole from their inception. The result is a remarkably collaborative, cross-disciplinary work that includes eight individually authored chapters and a collectively written introduction. Rather than attempting to produce a single ethical understanding from their diverse views, however, the group aims instead to demonstrate the value of the wider academic study of the place of animals in human history. The conclusion to "Killing Animals" takes the form of a discussion among the eight contributors, with each expanding upon issues raised earlier in the book.
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In his introduction to a recent series of essays on violence from anthropological perspectives, Jon Abbink notes that violence is universal in human societies. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
postmodern animal, domestic killing, religious slaughter, humane killing, hysterical performance, painless killing, dead animal bodies, wild killing, humane slaughter, animal attacks, animal killing, human hunting, meat industry, shelter workers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Angela Singer, Sir Edwin Landseer, Sue Coe, Elaine Showalter, Bear Garden, Damien Hirst, Jacques Derrida, Jordan Baseman, Cindy Sherman, Jennifer Wolch, Jonathan Burt, Joseph Hall, Sigmund Freud, The Postmodern Animal, Upton Sinclair, Empire of Nature, Farm Animal Welfare Council, John Simons, Joseph Wolf, Keith Thomas, Los Toros, Lyne Lapointe, Monarch of the Glen New!
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In his introduction to a recent series of essays on violence from anthropological perspectives, Jon Abbink notes that violence is universal in human societies. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
postmodern animal, domestic killing, religious slaughter, humane killing, hysterical performance, painless killing, dead animal bodies, wild killing, humane slaughter, animal attacks, animal killing, human hunting, meat industry, shelter workers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Angela Singer, Sir Edwin Landseer, Sue Coe, Elaine Showalter, Bear Garden, Damien Hirst, Jacques Derrida, Jordan Baseman, Cindy Sherman, Jennifer Wolch, Jonathan Burt, Joseph Hall, Sigmund Freud, The Postmodern Animal, Upton Sinclair, Empire of Nature, Farm Animal Welfare Council, John Simons, Joseph Wolf, Keith Thomas, Los Toros, Lyne Lapointe, Monarch of the Glen New!
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- Animals in Film (Reaktion Books - Locations) by Jonathan Burt on 6 pages
- Female Malady Women Madness/Eng Culture by Elaine Showalter on 5 pages
- AN Apology for Raymond Sebond (Penguin Classics) by Michel de Montaigne on page 105, page 114, and page 117
- Man & the Natural World (Penguin Press History) by Keith Thomas on page 99, page 116, and page 117
- Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser in Front Matter, page 140, and Back Matter
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