Animal DeathJay Johnston, Fiona Probyn-Rapsey Animal death is a complex, uncomfortable, depressing, motivating and sensitive topic. For those scholars participating in Human-Animal Studies, it is - accompanied by the concept of 'life' - the ground upon which their studies commence, whether those studies are historical, archaeological, social, philosophical, or cultural. It is a tough subject to face, but as this volume demonstrates, one at the heart of human-animal relations and human-animal studies scholarship. ... books have power. Words convey moral dilemmas. Human beings are capable of being moral creatures. So it may prove with the present book. Dear reader, be warned. Reading about animal death may prove a life-changing experience. If you do not wish to be exposed to that possibility, read no further ... In the end, by concentrating our attention on death in animals, in so many guises and circumstances, we, the human readers, are brought face to face with the reality of our world. It is a world of pain, fear and enormous stress and cruelty. It is a world that will not change anytime soon into a human community of vegetarians or vegans. But at least books like this are being written for public reflection. From the Foreword by The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG |
Contents
In the shadow of all this death | 1 |
Human and animal space in historic pet cemeteries | 21 |
an exploration of nonhuman | 43 |
Confronting corpses and theatre animals | 67 |
Respect for the animal dead | 85 |
animal death rites of mourning | 103 |
Mining animal death for all its worth | 119 |
images of death and redemption | 137 |
Julia Leighs The hunter as film | 189 |
Euthanasia and morally justifiable killing in a veterinary | 205 |
Heini Hedigers | 221 |
white animals | 239 |
curare restrictionism and abolitionism | 253 |
living and dying in Arctic Greenland | 277 |
transpecies identity and ontological | 293 |
About the contributors | 307 |
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