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From the first cave paintings to Britta Jaschinski's provocative animal photography, it seems we have been describing and portraying animals, in some form or another, for as long as we have been human. This book provides a broad historical overview of our representations of animals, from prehistory to postmodernity, and how those representations have altered with changing social conditions. Taking in a wide range of visual and textual materials, Linda Kalof unearths many surprising and revealing examples of our depictions of animals. She also examines animals in a broad sweep of literature, narrative and criticism: from Pliny the Elder's Natural History to Donna Haraway's writings on animal human machine interaction; and from accounts of the Black Plague and histories of the domestic animal and zoos, to the ways that animal stereotypes have been applied to people to highlight hierarchies of gender, race and class. Well-researched and scholarly, yet very accessible, this book is a significant contribution to the human animal story. Featuring more than 60 images, "Looking at Animals in Human History" brings together a wealth of information that will appeal to the wide audience interested in animals, as well as to specialists in many disciplines.
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"Linda Kalof's "Looking at Animals in Human History" is a vivid and encyclopedic survey of encounters between human and nonhuman animals across Western culture. Clear, readable, beautifully illustrated and always informative, this book presents (just as the title promises) a detailed account of how people have looked at animals, with insights into how animals figure in art, in battle, in entertainment, in law, in public health, in agriculture, in rituals, and much much more. This is a valuable contribution to the growing field of human-animal studies."--Randy Malamud, Georgia State University, and author of "Poetic Animals and Animal Souls"
"Linda Kalof's "Looking at Animals in Human History" is a vivid and encyclopedic survey of encounters between human and nonhuman animals across Western culture. Clear, readable, beautifully illustrated and always informative, this book presents (just as the title promises) a detailed account of how people have looked at animals, with insights into how animals figure in art, in battle, in entertainment, in law, in public health, in agriculture, in rituals, and much much more. This is a valuable contribution to the growing field of human-animal studies."--Randy Malamud, Georgia State University, and author of "Poetic Animals and Animal Souls"
"Linda Kalof7;s "Looking at Animals in Human History" is a vivid and encyclopedic survey of encounters between human and nonhuman animals across Western culture. Clear, readable, beautifully illustrated and always informative, this book presents (just as the title promises) a detailed account of how people have looked at animals, with insights into how animals figure in art, in battle, in entertainment, in law, in public health, in agriculture, in rituals, and much much more. This is a valuable contribution to the growing field of human-animal studies."--Randy Malamud, Georgia State University, and author of "Poetic Animals and Animal Souls"
"Linda Kalof's Looking at Animals in Human History is a vivid and encyclopedic survey of encounters between human and nonhuman animals across Western culture. Clear, readable, beautifully illustrated and always informative, this book presents (just as the title promises) a detailed account of how people have looked at animals, with insights into how animals figure in art, in battle, in entertainment, in law, in public health, in agriculture, in rituals, and much much more. This is a valuable contribution to the growing field of human-animal studies."--Randy Malamud, Georgia State University, and author of Poetic Animals and Animal Souls
"Linda Kalof''s account allows neither denial nor escape, while nourishing the commitment to somehow recraft actual inter-species relationships into more livable patterns."--Professor Donna Haraway, professor of the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz, and author of "Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness"
"Linda Kalof's "Looking at Animals in Human History" is a vivid and encyclopedic survey of encounters between human and nonhuman animals across Western culture. Clear, readable, beautifully illustrated and always informative, this book presents (just as the title promises) a detailed account of how people have looked at animals, with insights into how animals figure in art, in battle, in entertainment, in law, in public health, in agriculture, in rituals, and much much more. This is a valuable contribution to the growing field of human-animal studies."
--Randy Malamud, Georgia State University, and author of Poetic Animals and Animal (03/01/2007)
"Linda Kalof s "Looking at Animals in Human History" is a vivid and encyclopedic survey of encounters between human and nonhuman animals across Western culture. Clear, readable, beautifully illustrated and always informative, this book presents (just as the title promises) a detailed account of how people have looked at animals, with insights into how animals figure in art, in battle, in entertainment, in law, in public health, in agriculture, in rituals, and much much more. This is a valuable contribution to the growing field of human-animal studies."
--Randy Malamud, Georgia State University, and author of Poetic Animals and Animal (03/01/2007)"
"Linda Kalof's account allows neither denial nor escape, while nourishing the commitment to somehow recraft actual inter-species relationships into more livable patterns."--Professor Donna Haraway, professor of the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz, and author of Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness (08/31/2007)
"Linda Kalof s Looking at Animals in Human History is a vivid and encyclopedic survey of encounters between human and nonhuman animals across Western culture. Clear, readable, beautifully illustrated and always informative, this book presents (just as the title promises) a detailed account of how people have looked at animals, with insights into how animals figure in art, in battle, in entertainment, in law, in public health, in agriculture, in rituals, and much much more. This is a valuable contribution to the growing field of human-animal studies."
--Randy Malamud, Georgia State University, and author of Poetic Animals and Animal Souls (03/01/2007)"
"Linda Kalof devastates the idea that animals do not matter, that they are irrelevant to human history. Her fascinating book should provoke much discussion."- Jim Mason, co-author of The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter--Jim Mason (08/31/2007)"
"In this fascinating review, Linda Kalof has brought a fresh approach to describing the multiplicity of ways in which humans have interacted with animals from the prey of ice age hunters to the virtual animals in today s electronic world. With its scholarly text and splendid illustrations, this eminently readable book will appeal not only to all those with an interest in the animal world but also to students of social and art history." Juliet Clutton-Brock, author of A Natural History of Domesticated Mammals
--Juliet Clutton-Brock (03/19/2007)"
"To establish a more harmonious relationship to animals, we need to learn to pay greater attention, not only them but to one another as
well. But for that we need a context. Looking at Animals in Human History . . .is a fine place to start."--Boria Sax "H-NILAS ""
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"Linda Kalof's "Looking at Animals in Human History" is a vivid and encyclopedic survey of encounters between human and nonhuman animals across Western culture. Clear, readable, beautifully illustrated and always informative, this book presents (just as the title promises) a detailed account of how people have looked at animals, with insights into how animals figure in art, in battle, in entertainment, in law, in public health, in agriculture, in rituals, and much much more. This is a valuable contribution to the growing field of human-animal studies."--Randy Malamud, Georgia State University, and author of "Poetic Animals and Animal Souls"
"Linda Kalof's "Looking at Animals in Human History" is a vivid and encyclopedic survey of encounters between human and nonhuman animals across Western culture. Clear, readable, beautifully illustrated and always informative, this book presents (just as the title promises) a detailed account of how people have looked at animals, with insights into how animals figure in art, in battle, in entertainment, in law, in public health, in agriculture, in rituals, and much much more. This is a valuable contribution to the growing field of human-animal studies."--Randy Malamud, Georgia State University, and author of "Poetic Animals and Animal Souls"
"Linda Kalof7;s "Looking at Animals in Human History" is a vivid and encyclopedic survey of encounters between human and nonhuman animals across Western culture. Clear, readable, beautifully illustrated and always informative, this book presents (just as the title promises) a detailed account of how people have looked at animals, with insights into how animals figure in art, in battle, in entertainment, in law, in public health, in agriculture, in rituals, and much much more. This is a valuable contribution to the growing field of human-animal studies."--Randy Malamud, Georgia State University, and author of "Poetic Animals and Animal Souls"
"Linda Kalof's Looking at Animals in Human History is a vivid and encyclopedic survey of encounters between human and nonhuman animals across Western culture. Clear, readable, beautifully illustrated and always informative, this book presents (just as the title promises) a detailed account of how people have looked at animals, with insights into how animals figure in art, in battle, in entertainment, in law, in public health, in agriculture, in rituals, and much much more. This is a valuable contribution to the growing field of human-animal studies."--Randy Malamud, Georgia State University, and author of Poetic Animals and Animal Souls
"Linda Kalof''s account allows neither denial nor escape, while nourishing the commitment to somehow recraft actual inter-species relationships into more livable patterns."--Professor Donna Haraway, professor of the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz, and author of "Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness"
"Linda Kalof's "Looking at Animals in Human History" is a vivid and encyclopedic survey of encounters between human and nonhuman animals across Western culture. Clear, readable, beautifully illustrated and always informative, this book presents (just as the title promises) a detailed account of how people have looked at animals, with insights into how animals figure in art, in battle, in entertainment, in law, in public health, in agriculture, in rituals, and much much more. This is a valuable contribution to the growing field of human-animal studies."
--Randy Malamud, Georgia State University, and author of Poetic Animals and Animal (03/01/2007)
"Linda Kalof s "Looking at Animals in Human History" is a vivid and encyclopedic survey of encounters between human and nonhuman animals across Western culture. Clear, readable, beautifully illustrated and always informative, this book presents (just as the title promises) a detailed account of how people have looked at animals, with insights into how animals figure in art, in battle, in entertainment, in law, in public health, in agriculture, in rituals, and much much more. This is a valuable contribution to the growing field of human-animal studies."
--Randy Malamud, Georgia State University, and author of Poetic Animals and Animal (03/01/2007)"
"Linda Kalof's account allows neither denial nor escape, while nourishing the commitment to somehow recraft actual inter-species relationships into more livable patterns."--Professor Donna Haraway, professor of the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz, and author of Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness (08/31/2007)
"Linda Kalof s Looking at Animals in Human History is a vivid and encyclopedic survey of encounters between human and nonhuman animals across Western culture. Clear, readable, beautifully illustrated and always informative, this book presents (just as the title promises) a detailed account of how people have looked at animals, with insights into how animals figure in art, in battle, in entertainment, in law, in public health, in agriculture, in rituals, and much much more. This is a valuable contribution to the growing field of human-animal studies."
--Randy Malamud, Georgia State University, and author of Poetic Animals and Animal Souls (03/01/2007)"
"Linda Kalof devastates the idea that animals do not matter, that they are irrelevant to human history. Her fascinating book should provoke much discussion."- Jim Mason, co-author of The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter--Jim Mason (08/31/2007)"
"In this fascinating review, Linda Kalof has brought a fresh approach to describing the multiplicity of ways in which humans have interacted with animals from the prey of ice age hunters to the virtual animals in today s electronic world. With its scholarly text and splendid illustrations, this eminently readable book will appeal not only to all those with an interest in the animal world but also to students of social and art history." Juliet Clutton-Brock, author of A Natural History of Domesticated Mammals
--Juliet Clutton-Brock (03/19/2007)"
"To establish a more harmonious relationship to animals, we need to learn to pay greater attention, not only them but to one another as
well. But for that we need a context. Looking at Animals in Human History . . .is a fine place to start."--Boria Sax "H-NILAS ""
This is a new and fully illustrated introduction to the philosophy of animals. Nonhuman animals carry substantial symbolic weight in human culture, providing a frame for our dance, art, and narrative for thousands of years. Human language is saturated with animal tropes and metaphors, and some of our most pernicious social problems, such as slavery, sexism, and environmental degradation, have been connected to the human-animal relationship, both theoretically and empirically. In "Looking at Animals in Human History", Linda Kalof explores the philosophical underpinnings of the conceptual boundaries that separate human from animal and discusses contemporary theoretical challenges to the maintenance of the human-animal boundary and its relationship to other dualistic, essentialist categories. The book examines historical narratives in the representation of animals as 'others' through key mediums of exhibition, from the Roman gladiatorial contests in the third century to contemporary naturalistic displays. Kalof synthesizes the literature on the social and cultural messages encoded in the cultural representation of animals and examines the philosophical, theoretical and empirical links between human identity, concern for nonhuman others and the cultural representation of animals. The book concludes with a discussion of how changing our conceptualization of animals from 'other' to 'kin' is an essential first step at resolving some of our most serious social and environmental problems. This engaging and stimulating book introduces new research in a structured and accessible manner and serves as the ideal introduction to animal studies for undergraduate students.
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- PublisherContinuum International Publishing Group - Academi
- ISBN 10 0826460984
- ISBN 13 9780826460981
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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