Animal encounters / edited by Tom Tyler and Manuela Rossini.

• Superior document: Human-animal studies, v. 6
• TeilnehmendeR: Tyler, Tom, 1968-; Rossini, Manuela.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Human-animal studies ; v. 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction - The case of the camel /; Chapter One. If horses had hands . . . /; Chapter Two. Magic is afoot: Hoof marks, paw prints and the problem of writing wildly /; Chapter Three. Post-meateating /; Chapter Four. Americans do weird things with animals, or, why did the chicken cross the road? /; Chapter Five. Affect, friendship and the “as yet unknown”: Rat feeding experiments in early vitamin research /; Chapter Six. Becoming-with-companions: Sharing and response in experimental laboratories /; Chapter Seven. Invisible parts: Animals and the renaissance anatomies of human exceptionalism /; Chapter Eight. Invisible histories: Primate bodies and the rise of posthumanism in the twentieth century /; Chapter Nine. Fellow-feeling /; Chapter Ten. “Tangible and real and vivid and meaningful”: Lucy Kimbell’s not-knowing about rats /; Chapter Eleven. The predicament of zoopleasures: Human-nonhuman libidinal relations /; Chapter Twelve. Comingtogether: Symbiogenesis and metamorphosis in Paul di Filippo’s a mouthful of tongues /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1282399454; 9786612399459; 904744258X
• ISSN: 1573-4226
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Tom Tyler and Manuela Rossini.

The fast-growing field of Animal Studies is a varied and much contested domain. Engagement with animals has encouraged both collaboration and conflict between researchers within the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Animal Encounters comprises a series of meetings not only between diverse beasts, but also between distinct disciplinary methods, theoretical approaches, and ethical positions. The essays here collected come together from literary and cultural studies, sociology and anthropology, ecocriticism and art history, philosophy and feminism, science and technology studies, history and posthumanism, to study that most familiar and most foreign of creatures, ‘the animal’. These encounters between leading practitioners in the field highlight the promise and potential of interspecies exchange and mutual provocation.