Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten
Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten
ISBN: 978-0-8264-6097-4
Verlag: Continuum International Publishing Group
new and fully illustrated introduction to the representation of animals in human history
Looking at Animals in Human History is an overview of the cultural representation of animals from prehistory to postmodernity. With a focus on how animals have been reflected in the visual and narrative texts of western culture - from cave paintings to electronic zoos, from Pliny the Elder to Donna Haraway - this book provides a much-needed and well-documented synthesis of the literature on the cultural representations of animals and how those representations have changed with changing social conditions.
Looking at Animals in Human History helps the reader experience the human-animal story with 60 high quality images and numerous extracts from historical and literary sources. Bringing together a wealth of information about animals that will appeal to a wide interdisciplinary audience, the book covers a range of topics rarely discussed in recent books on animal cultural studies, such as the Black Plague, dead animal portraiture and animal rituals that reflect hierarchies of gender, race and class, including the medieval backwards ride, horning ceremonies, animal massacres and the anti- vivisection movement.
