Displaying Death and Animating Life
Human-Animal Relations in Art, Science, and Everyday Life
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1 Introduction: Passionate Encounters with Animals in Everyday Life—Beyond the Mainstream
Part One Theaters of the Dead: Humans and Nonhuman Animals
2 Postmortem Exhibitions: Taxidermied Animals and Plastinated Corpses in the Theaters of the Dead
3 Inside “Animal” and Outside “Culture”: The Limits to “Sameness” and Rhetorics of Salvation in von Hagens’s Animal Inside Out Body Worlds Exhibition
Part Two Mourning and the Unmourned
4 On the Margins of Death: Pet Cemeteries and Mourning Practices
5 Grievable Lives and New Kinships: Pet Cemeteries and the Changing Geographies of Death
6 Animal Deaths and the Written Record of History: The Inflammatory Politics of Pet Obituaries in Newspapers
7 Requiem for Roadkill: Death, Denial, and Mourning on America’s Roads
Part Three Animating Life: Cognition, Expressivity, and the Art Market
8 “Art” by Animals, Part 1: The Transnational Market for Art by (Nonprimate) Animals
9 “Art” by Animals, Part 2: When the Artist Is an Ape—Popular and Scientific Discourse and Paintings by Primates
10 Conclusion: “Every Bird a ‘Blueboy’” and Why It Matters for “Animal Studies”
Notes
Index
Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology
Biological Sciences: Behavioral Biology
Cognitive Science: Human and Animal Cognition
Psychology: Animal Behavior
Sociology: Occupations, Professions, Work
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