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Displaying death and animating life : human-animal relations in art, science, and everyday life /
"The number of ways in which humans interact with animals is almost incalculable. From beloved household pets to the steak on our dinner tables, the fur in our closets to the Babar books on our shelves, taxidermy exhibits to local zoos, humans have complex, deep, and dependent relationships wit...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | Animal lives (University of Chicago. Press)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction: Passionate Encounters with Animals in Everyday Life-Beyond the Mainstream; Part One. Theaters of the Dead: Humans and Nonhuman Animals; 2. Postmortem Exhibitions: Taxidermied Animals and Plastinated Corpses in the Theaters of the Dead; 3. Inside "Animal" and Outside "Culture": The Limits to "Sameness" and Rhetorics of Salvation in von Hagens's Animal Inside Out Body Worlds Exhibition; Part Two. Mourning and the Unmourned; 4. On the Margins of Death: Pet Cemeteries and Mourning Practices.
- 5. Grievable Lives and New Kinships: Pet Cemeteries and the Changing Geographies of Death6. Animal Deaths and the Written Record of History: The Inflammatory Politics of Pet Obituaries in Newspapers; 7. Requiem for Roadkill: Death, Denial, and Mourning on America's Roads; Part Three. Animating Life: Cognition, Expressivity, and the Art Market; 8. "Art" by Animals, Part 1: The Transnational Market for Art by (Nonprimate) Animals; 9. "Art" by Animals, Part 2: When the Artist Is an Ape-Popular and Scientific Discourse and Paintings by Primates; 10. Conclusion: "Every Bird a 'Blueboy' " and Why It Matters for "Animal Studies."