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.

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 beast...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / M. S. Rossini and T. Tyler
• Introduction - The case of the camel / Tom Tyler
• Chapter One. If horses had hands . . . / Tom Tyler
• Chapter Two. Magic is afoot: Hoof marks, paw prints and the problem of writing wildly / Pamela Banting
• Chapter Three. Post-meateating / Carol J. Adams
• Chapter Four. Americans do weird things with animals, or, why did the chicken cross the road? / Randy Malamud
• Chapter Five. Affect, friendship and the “as yet unknown”: Rat feeding experiments in early vitamin research / Robyn Smith
• Chapter Six. Becoming-with-companions: Sharing and response in experimental laboratories / Donna Haraway
• Chapter Seven. Invisible parts: Animals and the renaissance anatomies of human exceptionalism / Laurie Shannon
• Chapter Eight. Invisible histories: Primate bodies and the rise of posthumanism in the twentieth century / Jonathan Burt
• Chapter Nine. Fellow-feeling / Susan Squier
• Chapter Ten. “Tangible and real and vivid and meaningful”: Lucy Kimbell’s not-knowing about rats / Steve Baker
• Chapter Eleven. The predicament of zoopleasures: Human-nonhuman libidinal relations / Monika Bakke
• Chapter Twelve. Comingtogether: Symbiogenesis and metamorphosis in Paul di Filippo’s a mouthful of tongues / Manuela Rossini
• Index / M. S. Rossini and T. Tyler.