Table Of ContentAnimals Matter
Human- Animal Studies
Series Editor
Kenneth Shapiro
Animals & Society Institute, USA
Thomas Aiello
Animals & Society Institute, USA
Ivy Collier
Animals & Society Institute, USA
Gala Argent
Animals & Society Institute, USA
Editorial Board
Ralph Acampora
Hofstra University, USA
Clifton Flynn
University of South Carolina, USA
Hilda Kean
Ruskin College, Oxford, UK
Randy Malamud
Georgia State University, USA
Gail Melson
Purdue University, USA
Leslie Irvine
University of Colorado, USA
Richie Nimmo
University of Manchester, UK
volume 26
The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/has
Animals Matter
Resistance and Transformation in
Animal Commodification
Edited by
Julien Dugnoille and Elizabeth Vander Meer
LEIDEN | BOSTON
Cover illustrations: (1) Lying Cow, painting by Vincent van Gogh (1883). Image in public domain. (2) Study of
a Lioness, painting by John Frederick Lewis (c. 1824). Image in public domain. (3) Bird in a Cage, painting by
Frederick Carl Frieseke (1937). Image in public domain.
The Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data is available online at https://cata log.loc.gov
lc record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022948885
Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”. See and download: brill.com/b rill- typeface.
issn 1573- 4226
isbn 978- 90- 04- 52843- 7 (hardback)
isbn 978- 90- 04- 52844- 4 (e- book)
Copyright 2023 by Julien Dugnoille and Elizabeth Vander Meer. Published by Koninklijke Brill nv, Leiden,
The Netherlands.
Koninklijke Brill nv incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Hotei, Brill Schöningh, Brill Fink,
Brill mentis, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Böhlau, V&R unipress and Wageningen Academic.
Koninklijke Brill nv reserves the right to protect this publication against unauthorized use. Requests for
re-use and/ or translations must be addressed to Koninklijke Brill nv via brill.com or copyright.com.
This book is printed on acid- free paper and produced in a sustainable manner.
To Idem, Mark, JP, SangSang, and Schmoo
∵
Contents
L ist of Figures ix
N otes on Contributors x
Introduction 1
Julien Dugnoille
1 “ If They Could Talk It Would Be Perfect”
Visibility of Individual Wild Animals in French Circus Spectacle 10
Elizabeth Vander Meer
2 T he Silence and the Fury
Addressing Animal Resistance and Agency through the History of Human-
Animal Relationships 32
Violette Pouillard
3 T he Mejiro Bird
Between Commodity, Conservation, and Companion 56
Charlotte Linton
4 G rounding Intimacies
Human- Bovid Coexistence and Community Development in Hong
Kong 85
Daisy Bisenieks
5 G rowing Profitable Deer
Livestock and the Individual in Deer Farming 109
Christopher Ward
6 S peaking about Farming
Embodied Deliberation and Resistance of Cows and Farmers in the
Netherlands 132
Eva Meijer
7 P ièce de Resistance
Sartrean Existentialism in Small- Scale Farming 155
Julien Dugnoille
viii Contents
Conclusion
Reclaiming Resistance 172
Elizabeth Vander Meer
I ndex 177
Figures
Chapter 1 (Vander Meer)
1 P enguins dispersing after performing the slide trick in the Grand Cirque ring.
Source: Vander Meer 15
2 A snow leopard cub in the Jardin des Plantes Menagerie. Source: Vander Meer 18
Chapter 3 (Linton)
1 M ejiro- san, suspended from the workshop walls, interacts with an uncaged bird.
Source: Linton 57
2 S lide titled “Amami rabbit”. Source: Douglas Haring Papers. Permission
granted 62
3 S lide titled “Rurikakesu”. Source: Douglas Haring Papers. Permission granted 62
4 “ Bird meat shop, sparrows, quail eggs.” From left to right, birds are labelled kamo
(duck); tsugumi (thrush); suzume (sparrow); quail eggs; duck or chicken eggs.
Source: The Oliver L. Austin Photographic Collection. Permission granted 64
5 “ Bird meat shop, ducks.” From left to right: there appears to be duck, thrush,
woodcock, mallard, and ring- necked duck. Source: The Oliver L. Austin
Photographic Collection. 65
6 A mami black rabbit mascots wearing Oshima Tsumugi. Source: Linton 76
7 A n Oshima Tsumugi photoshoot in the Amamian forest. Source: Linton 77
8 K azu- san, one of the workshop craftsmen, points to Mejiro- san.
Source: Linton 80
Chapter 5 (Ward)
1 D ave the tame deer. bds 2016, 25. Source: Ward 125
Notes on Contributors
Daisy Bisenieks
is an anthropologist and artist based in Hong Kong. Her research interests
expand disciplines and geographies but primarily focus on anthroozology, in
particular more- than- human geographies, human- wildlife conflict and pol-
icy, as well as sensory and multispecies ethnography. Other areas of research
interest include experimental research practice, museum studies, migration
and diaspora studies, material culture, development and transnational trade,
which was further consolidated during her time as artist- researcher in resi-
dence at the Johann Jacobs Museum in Zurich between 2013–2 016. Working
together with her partner artist Royce Ng under the name Zheng Mahler,
Bisenieks often works on research intensive, site- specific projects that utilise
digital media, performance and installation to explore relationships between
art and anthropology, examining the limits as well as methods and strategies
of expanding both disciplines while experimenting with new interdisciplinary
possibilities.
Julien Dugnoille
is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Exeter. For nearly a
decade, much of his work has been dedicated to examining the place of dogs
and cats in South Korean society and culture. His book Dogs and cats in South
Korea: Itinerant commodities was published with Purdue University Press
(2021). He has recently updated his findings by looking at how urban sustain-
ability rhetoric used in South Korea during the current pandemic perpetuates
naturalist ideologies of “modern” urban environments, which in turn silence
a wide range of other ontologies (publication forthcoming). In collaboration
with Elizabeth Vander Meer, he is also currently developing a project which
explores how local, community- led approaches to the management of human-
animal (especially cats) interactions in the urban space can reveal not only
efficient alternatives to the dominant urban sustainability model, but also
the social- cultural values and wellbeing benefits that emerge as communities
engage with liminal animals in the urban space.
Charlotte Linton
is an anthropologist, designer and Postdoctoral Affiliate of the University of
Oxford whose work is situated at the intersection of visual, material and eco-
nomic anthropology, textiles and ethnoecology. She is interested in the relation-
ships that craftspeople have with the environments from which they extract
