Making Animal Meaning

Book Overview

An elucidating collection of ten original essays, Making Animal Meaning reconceptualizes methods for researching animal histories and rethinks the contingency of the human-animal relationship. The vibrant and diverse field of animal studies is detailed in these interdisciplinary discussions, which include voices from a broad range of scholars and have an extensive chronological and geographical reach. These exciting discourses capture the most compelling theoretical underpinnings of animal significance while exploring meaning-making through the study of specific spaces, species, and human-animal relations. A deeply thoughtful collection -- vital to understanding central questions of agency, kinship, and animal consumption -- these essays tackle the history and philosophy of constructing animal meaning.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611860563
• ISBN13: 9781611860566
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 9.9"