Beastly Natures

Beastly Natures
Author: Dorothee Brantz
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2010-07-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0813929474

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Animal Passions and Beastly Virtues

Animal Passions and Beastly Virtues
Author: Marc Bekoff
Publisher: Temple University Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2005-11-09
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9781592133499

An engaging, thoughtful look at the science and ethics of research into animal behavior.

Beastly Bionics

Beastly Bionics
Author: Jennifer Swanson
Publisher: National Geographic Kids
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2020
Genre: JUVENILE NONFICTION
ISBN: 142633673X

Discover more than 40 examples of technology influenced by animals, meet some of the scientists and the story behind their inventions, and learn about some of the incredible creatures who have inspired multiple creation

Beastly Possessions

Beastly Possessions
Author: Sarah Amato
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2015-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1442648740

In Beastly Possessions, Sarah Amato chronicles the unusual ways in which Victorians of every social class brought animals into their daily lives. Captured, bred, exhibited, collected, and sold, ordinary pets and exotic creatures – as well as their representations – became commodities within Victorian Britain's flourishing consumer culture. As a pet, an animal could be a companion, a living parlour decoration, and proof of a household's social and moral status. In the zoo, it could become a public pet, an object of curiosity, a symbol of empire, or even a consumer mascot. Either kind of animal might be painted, photographed, or stuffed as a taxidermic specimen. Using evidence ranging from pet-keeping manuals and scientific treatises to novels, guidebooks, and ephemera, this fascinating, well-illustrated study opens a window into an underexplored aspect of life in Victorian Britain.

Beyond the Human-Animal Divide

Beyond the Human-Animal Divide
Author: Dominik Ohrem
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2017-11-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1349934372

This volume explores the potential of the concept of the creaturely for thinking and writing beyond the idea of a clear-cut human-animal divide, presenting innovative perspectives and narratives for an age which increasingly confronts us with the profound ecological, ethical and political challenges of a multispecies world. The text explores written work such as Samuel Beckett’s Worstward Ho and Michel Foucault's The Order of Things, video media such as the film "Creature Comforts" and the video game Into the Dead, and photography. With chapters written by an international group of philosophers, literary and cultural studies scholars, historians and others, the volume brings together established experts and forward-thinking early career scholars to provide an interdisciplinary engagement with ways of thinking and writing the creaturely to establish a postanthropocentric sense of human-animal relationality.

Nature in Scripture

Nature in Scripture
Author: Ephraim Chamberlain Cummings
Publisher:
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1885
Genre: Christianity
ISBN:

Beast and Man

Beast and Man
Author: Mary Midgley
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2004-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134438451

Philosophers have traditionally concentrated on the qualities that make human beings different from other species. In Beast and Man Mary Midgley, one of our foremost intellectuals, stresses continuities. What makes people tick? Largely, she asserts, the same things as animals. She tells us humans are rather more like other animals than we previously allowed ourselves to believe, and reminds us just how primitive we are in comparison to the sophistication of many animals. A veritable classic for our age, Beast and Man has helped change the way we think about ourselves and the world in which we live.

Animal History in the Modern City

Animal History in the Modern City
Author: Clemens Wischermann
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2018-09-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1350054046

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Animals are increasingly recognized as fit and proper subjects for historians, yet their place in conventional historical narratives remains contested. This volume argues for a history of animals based on the centrality of liminality - the state of being on the threshold, not quite one thing yet not quite another. Since animals stand between nature and culture, wildness and domestication, the countryside and the city, and tradition and modernity, the concept of liminality has a special resonance for historical animal studies. Assembling an impressive cast of contributors, this volume employs liminality as a lens through which to study the social and cultural history of animals in the modern city. It includes a variety of case studies, such as the horse-human relationship in the towns of New Spain, hunting practices in 17th-century France, the birth of the zoo in Germany and the role of the stray dog in the Victorian city, demonstrating the interrelated nature of animal and human histories. Animal History in the Modern City is a vital resource for scholars and students interested in animal studies, urban history and historical geography.

In the Skin of a Beast

In the Skin of a Beast
Author: Peggy McCracken
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2017-05-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 022645908X

In medieval literature, when humans and animals meet—whether as friends or foes—issues of mastery and submission are often at stake. In the Skin of a Beast shows how the concept of sovereignty comes to the fore in such narratives, reflecting larger concerns about relations of authority and dominion at play in both human-animal and human-human interactions. Peggy McCracken discusses a range of literary texts and images from medieval France, including romances in which animal skins appear in symbolic displays of power, fictional explorations of the wolf’s desire for human domestication, and tales of women and snakes converging in a representation of territorial claims and noble status. These works reveal that the qualities traditionally used to define sovereignty—lineage and gender among them—are in fact mobile and contingent. In medieval literary texts, as McCracken demonstrates, human dominion over animals is a disputed model for sovereign relations among people: it justifies exploitation even as it mandates protection and care, and it depends on reiterations of human-animal difference that paradoxically expose the tenuous nature of human exceptionalism.