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Zusatztext High quality editing! clear writing! and abundant visual illustrations ... These volumes will be basic to future scholarship dealing with animals and society. Essential. Informationen zum Autor Randy Malamud is Regents’ Professor of English at Georgia State University, USA. He is the author of 12 books, including the influential Reading Zoos: Representations of Animals and Captivity (NYU Press, 1998), The Importance of Elsewhere: The Globalist Humanist Tourist (Intellect, 2018), and Strange Bright Blooms: A History of Cut Flowers (Reaktion, 2021). He writes about film, travel, ecocriticism, and culture for the Chronicle of Higher Education , Times Higher Education , Film Quarterly , Senses of Cinema , Film International , Common Knowledge , Salon , Huffington Post , The Conversation , and truthout . He has been interviewed about his books on NPR, BBC, CNN, and numerous podcasts. He is a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. A thematic overview of how animals were seen and used in the period from1920 to the present day, covering symbolism, hunting, domestication, sports and entertainment, science, philosophy, and art. Zusammenfassung A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2008 Human culture is now more dangerous to non-human animals than ever before. The destruction of natural habitats and the killing of animals for food, science, medicine or trophy - sometimes to the point of extinction - is the stuff of newspaper headlines. We live in a time when the idea of an animal's habitat has almost become irrelevant, except as a historical curiosity, yet also in a time when the public and philosophical acknowledgement of animal rights and environmental ethics is on the rise. Animals are enmeshed in human culture simply because people are so interested in them. Animals remain central to our sense of the natural world. Our pets are often seen as our closest companions through life. At the same time, the last century has seen the use of animals in scientific experimentation and major changes in industrial-scale animal farming. Never has the relationship between human and non-human animals been more hotly contested. A Cultural History of Animals in the Modern Age 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Famous Animals in Modern Culture Randy Malamud! Georgia State University 1. The Golden Spider and Her World-Wide Web: Sacred and Symbolic Animals in the Era of Change Boria Sax! Mercy College 2. Hunting in the Modern Age Garry Marvin! Roehampton University 3. The Present and Future of Animal Domestication Margo DeMello! Albuquerque TVI College! New Mexico 4. Zoo Animals as Entertainment Exhibitions David Hancocks! Royal Institute of British Architects! Australia 5. Scientific Animals: The Laboratory and its Human-Animal Relations! from Dba to Dolly Karen Rader! Virginia Commonwealth University 6. Animal Philosophy: Ethics and Zoontology Ralph Acampora! Hofstra University 7. Animals in Twentieth-Century Art Jonathan Burt! Independent Scholar! UK Notes Bibliography Index ...
