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Animal Remains

By Robert McKay , Sarah Bezan

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2021
ISBN
0367655128, 1032158468, 1000506487, 1000506428, 1003129803, 9781000506426, 9781000506488, 9781003129806, 9781032158464, 9780367655129
DOI
10.4324/9781003129806
ASIN
B09KXCHHCK
LCC
B105.A55 A55155 2022eb
Google Books ID
hqZMEAAAQBAJ
Open Library ID
OL33948646M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
32 MB (33912603 bytes)
Series
Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture
Volume
1
Edition
1
Pages
295\295
Topic
Biology
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2024-11-10 03:34:53

Description

The dream of humanism is to cleanly discard of humanity’s animal remains along with its ecological embeddings, evolutionary heritages and futures, ontogenies and phylogenies, sexualities and sensualities, vulnerabilities and mortalities. But, as the contributors to this volume demonstrate, animal remains are everywhere and so animals remain everywhere. Animal remains are food, medicine, and clothing; extractive resources and traces of animals’ lifeworlds and ecologies; they are sites of political conflict and ontological fear, fetishized visual signs and objects of trade, veneration, and memory; they are biotechnological innovations and spill-over viruses. To make sense of the material afterlives of animals, this book draws together multispecies perspectives from literary criticism and theory, cultural studies, anthropology and ethnography, photographic and film history, and contemporary art practice to offer the first synoptic account of animal remains. Interpreting them in all their ubiquity, diversity, and persistence, Animal Remains reveals posthuman relations between human and non-human communities of the living and the dead, on timescales of decades, centuries, and millennia.

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