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LEADER: 02495cam a22002294a 4500
001 2009014841
003 DLC
005 20090827164058.0
008 090407s2009 ne a 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009014841
020 $a9789004175808 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aHV4708$b.A57 2009
082 00 $a179/.3$222
245 00 $aAnimals and agency :$ban interdisciplinary exploration /$cedited by Sarah E. McFarland Ryan Hediger.
260 $aLeiden ;$aBoston :$bBrill,$c2009.
300 $avii, 382 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
490 0 $aHuman animal studies,$x1573-4226 ;$vv. 8
505 0 $aApproaching the agency of other animals : an introduction / Sarah E. McFarland and Ryan Hediger -- Animals as agents -- Whale agency : affordances and acts of resistance in captive environments / Traci Warkentin -- The racehorse as protagonist : agency, independence, and improvisation / Shelly R. Scott -- Consuming Timothy Treadwell : redefining nonhuman agency in light of Herzog's Grizzly man / David Lulka -- Dancing penguins and a pretentious raccoon : animated animals and 21st century environmentalism / Sarah E. McFarland -- Speaking through animals -- No human hand : the ourang-outang in Poe's "The murders in the Rue Morgue" / Stephanie Rowe -- Sled dogs of the American North : on masculinity, whiteness, and human freedom / Rebecca Onion -- The slave whisperer rides the frontier : horseface minstrelsy in the western / J.J. Clark -- Speaking for animals -- Representing the experimental animal : competing voices in victorian culture / Jed Mayer -- Forms of life : the search for the simian self in ape language experiments / Rebecca Bishop -- Animals, agency, and absence : a discourse analysis of institutional animal care and use committee meetings / Debra Durham and Debra Merskin -- Humanimals and other marginal species -- "To abandon the colonial animal" : "race," animals, and the feral child in Kipling's Mowgli stories / Dipika Nath -- At the top of the hierarchical ladder : were-animals in Annette Curtis Klause's Blood and chocolate and Patrice Kindl's Owl in love / Cat Yampell -- The microgeography of infestation in relationship spaces / Matthew Candelaria -- Crossing over : (dis)ability, contingent agency, and death in the marginal genre work of Temple Grandin and Jim Harrison / Ryan Hediger -- Envoi towards a philosophy of the polyp / Laurence Simmons.
650 0 $aAnimal welfare.
700 1 $aMcFarland, Sarah E.
700 1 $aHediger, Ryan.