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Displaying death and animating life, human-animal relations in art, science, and everyday life, Jane C. Desmond

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Displaying death and animating life, human-animal relations in art, science, and everyday life, Jane C. Desmond

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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illustrations

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Displaying death and animating life

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bibliography

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930508848

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Jane C. Desmond

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Animal lives

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human-animal relations in art, science, and everyday life

Table Of Contents

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

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