The Animals Reader

Prologue: reflections on the animal photographs Britta Jaschinski  Editorial introduction Linda Kalof and Amy Fitzgerald  Part 1: Animals as philosophical, ethical and political subjects  Introduction  1. The history of animals Aristotle  2. Principles of morals and legislation Jeremy Bentham  3. Equality for animals? Peter Singer  4. In defense of slavery Marjorie Spiegel  5. The nature and importance of rights Tom Regan  6. Animal thing to animal person ? thoughts on time, place, and theories Steven Wise  7. Frontiers of justice: capabilities and animals Martha Nussbaum  8. Becoming-animal Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari  9. The animal that therefore I am (more to follow) Jacques Derrida  10. From polis to zoopolis: a political theory of animal rights Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka  11. The struggle for compassion and justice through critical animal studies Carol Gigliotti  Further reading in aminals as philosophical, ethical and political subjects  Part 2: Animals as reflexive thinkers  Introduction  12. An apology for Raymond Sebond Michel de Montaigne  13. From the letters of 1646 and 1649 René Descartes  14. The emotions Charles Darwin  15. Speaking for dogs Arnold Arluke and Clinton R. Sanders  16. Wild justice and fair play: cooperation, forgiveness, and morality in animals Marc Bekoff  17. Grief, sadness, and the bones of elephants Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and Susan McCarthy  18. Orangutan cultures and the evolution of material culture Carel P. van Schaik, Marc Ancrenaz, Gwendolyn Borgen, Birute Galdikas, Cheryl D. Knott, Ian Singleton, Akira Suzuki, Sri Suci Utami, and Michelle Merrill  Further reading in animals as reflexive thinkers  Part 3: Animals as domesticates, companions and food  Introduction  19. The hunter-gatherer prehistory of human-animal interactions Steven Mithen  20. Animal pets: cruelty and affection Yi-Fu Tuan  21. The eating of flesh Plutarch  22. Brave new farm? Jim Mason and Mary Finelli  23. The sexual politics of meat Carol J. Adams  24. Nomadic pastoralism, ranching, and violence David Nibert  25. Theriocide: naming animal killing Piers Beirne  26. The work of animals: a challenge for social sciences Jocelyne Porcher  Further reading in animals as domesticates, companions and food  Part 4: Animals as spectacle and sport  Introduction  27. Combats of elephants Pliny the Elder  28. On being human in the bullfight Garry Marvin  29. Dogfighting: symbolic expression and validation of masculinity Rhonda Evans, DeAnn Kalich (Gauthier) and Craig J. Forsyth  30. Hunting and humanity in Western thought Matt Cartmill  31. Naturalizing zoo animals Irus Braverman  Further reading in animals as spectacle and sport  Part 5: Animals as symbols  Introduction  32. Why look at animals? John Berger  33. The totemic illusion Claude Lévi-Strauss  34. Animals as tradition Boria Sax  35. Animals and visual culture Randy Malamud  36. What is the postmodern animal? Steve Baker  Further reading in animals as symbols  Part 6: Animals as scientific objects  Introduction  37. Observations on the animal kingdom Carl Linnaeus  38. The Brown Dog Riots of 1907 Coral Lansbury  39. Into the laboratory Lynda Birke  40. Biopower and the biotechnological framing of the animal body Richard Twine  41. Sharing suffering: instrumental relations between laboratory animals and their people Donna J. Haraway  42. Responding bodies and partial affinities in human-animal worlds Vinciane Despret  Further reading in animals as scientific objects.  Index