[PDF] A Cultural History Of Animals eBook

Author : Linda Kalof
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 20,52 MB
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781847888174

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Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2008. Animals had an ubiquitous and central presence in the ancient world. A Cultural History of Animals In Antiquity presents an extraordinarily broad assessment of animal cultures from 2500 BC to 1000 AD, describing how animals were an intrinsic part of the spiritual life of ancient society, how they were hunted, domesticated and used for entertainment, and the roles animals played in ancient science and philosophy. Since much of what we know about animals in antiquity is gleaned from the images left by our ancestors, the book presents a wealth of illustrations. Seminal ancient narratives about animals -- including works from Aristotle, Plutarch, Ovid and Pliny the Elder -- are also drawn upon to illustrate contemporary ideas about and attitudes towards animals. As with all the volumes in the illustrated A Cultural History of Animals, this volume presents an overview of the period and continues with essays on the position of animals in contemporary Symbolism, Hunting, Domestication, Sports and Entertainment, Science, Philosophy, and Art. Volume 1 in the Cultural History of Animals edited by Linda Kalof and Brigitte Resl.

Author : Linda Kalof
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,74 MB
Release : 2007-08-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781861893345

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Taking in a wide range of visual and textual materials, Linda Kalof in Looking at Animals in Human History unearths many surprising and revealing examples of our depictions of animals.

Author : Charlotte Sleigh
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 30,30 MB
Release : 2007-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801884450

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Marking the centenary of the coining of myrmecologyto describe the study of ants, Six Legs Better demonstrates the remarkable historical role played by ants as a node where notions of animal, human, and automaton intersect.

Author : Billie Jean Collins
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 12,32 MB
Release : 2001-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9047400917

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This book is about all aspects of man’s contact with the animal world; sacrifice, sacred animals, diet, domestication, in short, from the sublime to the mundane. Chapters on art, literature, religion and animal husbandry provide the reader with a complete picture of the complex relationships between the peoples of the Ancient Near East and (their) animals. A reference guide and key to the menagerie of the Ancient Near East, with ample original illustrations.

Author : Linda Kalof
Publisher :
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 29,19 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Animals
ISBN :

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A compete history from antiquity to today of the history of animals and of their relationship with humans.

Author : Stephen T. Asma
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 22,75 MB
Release : 2003-05-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0195347463

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The natural history museum is a place where the line between "high" and "low" culture effectively vanishes--where our awe of nature, our taste for the bizarre, and our thirst for knowledge all blend happily together. But as Stephen Asma shows in Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads, there is more going on in these great institutions than just smart fun. Asma takes us on a wide-ranging tour of natural history museums in New York and Chicago, London and Paris, interviewing curators, scientists, and exhibit designers, and providing a wealth of fascinating observations. We learn how the first museums were little more than high-toned side shows, with such garish exhibits as the pickled head of Peter the Great's lover. In contrast, today's museums are hot-beds of serious science, funding major research in such fields as anthropology and archaeology. "Rich in detail, lucid explanation, telling anecdotes, and fascinating characters.... Asma has rendered a fascinating and credible account of how natural history museums are conceived and presented. It's the kind of book that will not only engage a wide and diverse readership, but it should, best of all, send them flocking to see how we look at nature and ourselves in those fabulous legacies of the curiosity cabinet."--The Boston Herald.

Author : Margo DeMello
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 16,80 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0231152957

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This textbook provides a full overview of human-animal studies. It focuses on the conceptual construction of animals in American culture and the way in which it reinforces and perpetuates hierarchical human relationships rooted in racism, sexism, and class privilege.

Author : Kathleen Kete
Publisher : Berg Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,18 MB
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781847888211

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A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2008 A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Empire explores the cultural position of animals in the period from 1800 to 1920. This was a time of extraordinary social, political and economic change as the Western world rapidly industrialized and modernized. The Enlightenment had attempted to define the human self; the Age of Empire pulled animals and humans further apart. A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Empire presents an overview of the period and continues with essays on the position of animals in contemporary symbolism, hunting, domestication, sports and entertainment, science, philosophy, and art.

Author : Matthew Senior
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 18,2 MB
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781847888204

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Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2008. The period of the Enlightenment saw great changes in the way animals were seen. The codifying and categorizing impulse of the age of reason saw sharp lines drawn between different animal species and between animals and humans. In 1600, "beasts" were still seen as the foils and adversaries of human reason, by 1800, animals had become exemplars of sentiment and compassion, the new standards of truth and morals. A new age had dawned, a time when humans admired animals and sought to recover their own animality. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Animals, this volume presents an overview of the period and continues with essays on the position of animals in contemporary Symbolism, Hunting, Domestication, Sports and Entertainment, Science, Philosophy, and Art. Volume 4 in the Cultural History of Animals edited by Linda Kalof and Brigitte Resl.