Knowing Animals (Human Animal Studies)

313 Pages·2007·3.37 MB·English

by  Simmons

Knowing Animals
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Human Animal Studies
Editor
Kenneth Shapiro
Society and Animals Forum
Editorial Board
Ralph Acampora
Hofstra University
Clifford Flynn
University of South Carolina
Hilda Kean
Ruskin College
Randy Malamud
Georgia State University
Gail Melson
Purdue University
VOLUME 4
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Knowing Animals
Edited by
Laurence Simmons and Philip Armstrong
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2007
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This book is printed on acid-free paper.
A C.I.P. record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
LC Control Number: 2007060853
ISSN 1573-4226
ISBN-13: 978 90 04 15773 6
ISBN-10: 90 04 15773 5
© Copyright 2007 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Hotei Publishing,
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“. . . and already the knowing animals are
aware that we are not really at home in our
interpreted world.”
—Rainer Maria Rilke, “Duino Elegies”
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations ...................................................................... ix
Acknowledgements ..................................................................... xi
List of Contributors .................................................................... xiii
Bestiary: An Introduction ........................................................... 1
Philip Armstrong and Laurence Simmons
PART ONE
THINKING ANIMALS
Chapter One Shame, Levinas’s Dog, Derrida’s Cat
(and Some Fish) ...................................................................... 27
Laurence Simmons
Chapter Two Understanding Avian Intelligence .................... 43
Alphonso Lingis
PART TWO
ANIMALS INCORPORATED
Chapter Three What do Animals Dream Of?
Or King Kong as Darwinian Screen Animal ........................... 59
Barbara Creed
Chapter Four “No Circus without Animals”?: Animal Acts
and Ideology in the Virtual Circus ........................................ 79
Tanja Schwalm
Chapter Five Farming Images: Animal Rights and
Agribusiness in the Field of Vision ........................................ 105
Philip Armstrong
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viii contents
PART THREE
THE FACE OF THE ANIMAL
Chapter Six The Mark of the Beast: Inscribing ‘Animality’
through Extreme Body Modi(cid:2) cation ..................................... 131
Annie Potts
Chapter Seven Bill Hammond’s Parliament of Foules ........... 155
Allan Smith
PART FOUR
THE PLACE OF THE ANIMAL
Chapter Eight Extinction Stories: Performing Absence(s) ...... 183
Ricardo De Vos
Chapter Nine Australia Imagined in Biological Control ........ 196
Catharina Landström
PART FIVE
ANIMAL TALES
Chapter Ten Tails within Tales ............................................... 217
Brian Boyd
Chapter Eleven Pigs, People and Pigoons ............................... 244
Helen Tif(cid:2) n
Chapter Twelve Walking the Dog ........................................... 266
Ian Wedde
Index ........................................................................................... 289
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Front Cover:
Joanna Braithwaite, Dangerous Liaison (2003)
Bestiary: An Introduction:
Images, Harry Kerr (2006)
4.1. Circus Krone Elephants and Handler with Bullhook
4.2. Jumbo Tethered
4.3. “Buddy Wild in Africa”
5.1. Fistulated Cow
5.2. Sheep Housing
6.1. Katzen
6.2. Cat Man
7.1. Bill Hammond, Coastwatcher’s Songbook (1994)
7.2. Bill Hammond, Untitled Bird Study (1998)
7.3. Bill Hammond, Skin Room (1997)
7.4. Bill Hammond, Shag Pile (1994)
7.5. Bill Hammond, All Along the Heaphy Highway (1998)
7.6. Bill Hammond, Limbo Ledge and Timeball (2002)
10.1. George Herrman, “The Family Upstairs” (c. 1913)
10.2. George Herrman, “Krazy Kat” (c. 1913)
10.3. Fritz Heidler and Marianne Simmel, Geometric Shapes (1944)
10.4. Peter Blegvad, “Leviathan” (1994)
10.5. Art Spiegelman, Maus (1986)
10.6. Art Spiegelman, Maus. “And So The Train Man . . .” (1986)
10.7. Art Spiegelman, Maus. “Maybe We Should Try . . .” (1986)
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