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Killing Animals by The Animal Studies Group (Steve Baker, Jonathan Burt, Diana Donald, Erica Fudge, GarryMarvin, Robert McKay, Clare Palmer and Chris Wilbert) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Killing Animals about?

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. 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 separat

Who reads Killing Animals?

Author

The Animal Studies Group (Steve Baker, Jonathan Burt, Diana Donald, Erica Fudge, GarryMarvin, Robert McKay, Clare Palmer and Chris Wilbert)

Publisher

University of Illinois Press : Combined Academic [distributor

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780252072901

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Science, Fiction