Making animal meaning [electronic resource] / edited by Linda Kalof and Georgina M. Montgomery.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Animal writes : historiography, disciplinarity, and the animal trace / Etienne Benson -- Mobility and the making of animal meaning : the kinetics of "vermin" and "wildlife" in southern Africa / Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga -- Cannibalism, consumption, and kinship in animal studies / Anal�ia Villagra -- The Renaissance transformation of animal meaning : from Petrarch to Montaigne / Benjamin Arbel -- On the trail of the devil cat : hunting for the jaguar in the United States and Mexico / Sharon Wilcox Adams -- Animal deaths and the written record of history : the politics of pet obituaries / Jane Desmond -- Golden retrievers are white, pit bulls are black, and chihuahuas are Hispanic : representations of breeds of dog and issues of race in popular culture / Meisha Rosenberg -- Interspecies families, freelance dogs, and personhood : saved lives and being one at an assistance dog agency / Avigdor Edminster -- Animal meaning in T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's book of practical cats / Stacy Rule -- Animals at the end of the world : notes toward a transspecies eschatology / Casey R. Riffel.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.