Animals Reader

<p><em>The Animals Reader</em> brings together classic and contemporary writings from philosophy, ethics, sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, environmental studies, history, law and science. Providing readers with both an understanding of the multidisciplinary field of animal studies and a clear sense of how the role of animals in human society has been understood and critiqued through time, this second edition has been expanded to reflect key developments in theory and research that have emerged in recent years.</p><p>Forty-two chapters are divided into six parts. Favourite entries from the first edition have been retained, and are joined by sixteen new readings covering topics such as equality, animal rights and citizenship, zoos, death and killing, and embodied communication and empathy.</p><p>The second edition begins with a new prologue by acclaimed wildlife photographer and photojournalist Britta Jaschinski. Updated pedagogical features include a new general introduction by the editors, revised introductions to each part and each reading, as well as new suggestions for further reading at the end of each section.</p><p>As such,<i> The Animals Reader </i>is an invaluable collection for students across the humanities and social sciences, and is also suitable for general readers with an interest in human-animal relations.</p> <p>Prologue:<b> r</b>eflections on the<b> a</b>nimal photographs <em>Britta Jaschinski Editorial</em> introduction <em>Linda Kalof and Amy Fitzgerald </em><b>Part 1: Animals as philosophical, ethical and political subjects </b>Introduction 1. The history of animals <i>Aristotle </i>2. Principles of morals and legislation <i>Jeremy Bentham </i>3. Equality for animals? <i>Peter Singer </i>4. In defense of slavery <i>Marjorie Spiegel </i>5. The nature and importance of rights <i>Tom Regan </i>6. Animal thing to animal person <b>–</b> thoughts on time, place, and theories <i>Steven Wise </i>7. Frontiers of justice: capabilities and animals <i>Martha Nussbaum </i>8. Becoming-animal <i>Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari </i>9. The animal that therefore I am (more to follow) <i>Jacques Derrida </i>10. From polis to zoopolis: a political theory of animal rights <i>Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka </i>11. The struggle for compassion and justice through critical animal studies <i>Carol Gigliotti </i>Further reading in aminals as philosophical, ethical and political subjects <b>Part 2: Animals as reflexive thinkers </b>Introduction 12. An apology for Raymond Sebond <i>Michel de Montaigne </i>13. From the letters of 1646 and 1649 <i>René Descartes </i>14. The emotions <i>Charles Darwin </i>15. Speaking for dogs <i>Arnold Arluke and Clinton R. Sanders </i>16. Wild justice and fair play: cooperation, forgiveness, and morality in animals <i>Marc Bekoff </i>17. Grief, sadness, and the bones of elephants <i>Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and Susan McCarthy </i>18. Orangutan cultures and the evolution of material culture <i>Carel P. van Schaik, Marc Ancrenaz, Gwendolyn Borgen, Birute Galdikas, Cheryl D. Knott, Ian Singleton, Akira Suzuki, Sri Suci Utami, and Michelle Merrill </i>Further reading in animals as reflexive thinkers <b>Part 3: Animals as domesticates, companions and food </b>Introduction 19. The hunter-gatherer prehistory of human-animal interactions <i>Steven Mithen </i>20. Animal pets: cruelty and affection <i>Yi-Fu Tuan </i>21. The eating of flesh <i>Plutarch </i>22. Brave new farm? <i>Jim Mason and Mary Finelli </i>23. The sexual politics of meat <i>Carol J. Adams </i>24. Nomadic pastoralism, ranching, and violence <i>David Nibert </i>25. Theriocide: naming animal killing <i>Piers Beirne </i>26. The work of animals: a challenge for social sciences <i>Jocelyne Porcher </i>Further reading in animals as domesticates, companions and food <b>Part 4: Animals as spectacle and sport </b>Introduction 27. Combats of elephants <i>Pliny the Elder </i>28. On being human in the bullfight<i> Garry Marvin </i>29. Dogfighting: symbolic expression and validation of masculinity <i>Rhonda Evans, DeAnn Kalich (Gauthier) and Craig J. Forsyth </i>30. Hunting and humanity in Western thought <i>Matt Cartmill </i>31. Naturalizing zoo animals <i>Irus Braverman </i>Further reading in animals as spectacle and sport <b>Part 5: Animals as symbols </b>Introduction 32. Why look at animals? <i>John Berger </i>33. The totemic illusion <i>Claude Lévi-Strauss </i>34. Animals as tradition <i>Boria Sax </i>35. Animals and visual culture <i>Randy Malamud </i>36. What is the postmodern animal? <i>Steve Baker </i>Further reading in animals as symbols <b>Part 6: Animals as scientific objects </b>Introduction 37. Observations on the animal kingdom <em>Carl Linnaeus </em>38. The Brown Dog Riots of 1907 <i>Coral Lansbury </i>39. Into the laboratory <i>Lynda Birke </i>40. Biopower and the biotechnological framing of the animal body <i>Richard Twine </i>41. Sharing suffering: instrumental relations between laboratory animals and their people <i>Donna J. Haraway </i>42. Responding bodies and partial affinities in human-animal worlds <i>Vinciane Despret </i>Further reading in animals as scientific objects. <i>Index</i></p>