Animal history in the modern city : exploring liminality
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Animal history in the modern city : exploring liminality
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020
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This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched.
Animals are increasingly recognized as fit and proper subjects for historians, yet their place in conventional historical narratives remains contested. This volume argues for a history of animals based on the centrality of liminality - the state of being on the threshold, not quite one thing yet not quite another. Since animals stand between nature and culture, wildness and domestication, the countryside and the city, and tradition and modernity, the concept of liminality has a special resonance for historical animal studies.
Assembling an impressive cast of contributors, this volume employs liminality as a lens through which to study the social and cultural history of animals in the modern city. It includes a variety of case studies, such as the horse-human relationship in the towns of New Spain, hunting practices in 17th-century France, the birth of the zoo in Germany and the role of the stray dog in the Victorian city, demonstrating the interrelated nature of animal and human histories.
Animal History in the Modern City is a vital resource for scholars and students interested in animal studies, urban history and historical geography.
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1. Liminality: A Governing Category in Animate History Clemens Wischermann (University of Konstanz, Germany) and Philip Howell (University of Cambridge, UK)
2. Liminal Lives in the New World Isabelle Schurch (University of Konstanz, Germany)
3. Liminal Moments: Royal Hunts and Animal Lives in and Around Seventeenth-Century Paris Nadir Weber (University of Bern, Switzerland)
4. Antisocial Animals in the British Atlantic World: Liminality and Nuisance in Glasgow and New York City, 1660-1760 Andrew Wells (University of Goettingen, Germany)
5. Canaries and Pigeons on the Threshold: An Eighteenth-Century Case Study of Liminal Animal Lives in a Southwest German Hometown Dennis A. Frey Jr (Lassell College, USA)
6. The Giraffe's Journey in France (1826-7): Entering Another World Eric Baratay (Jean Moulin University Lyon 3, France)
7. The Elimination of the German Butcher Dog and the Rise of the Modern Slaughterhouse Annette Leiderer (Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany)
8. It's Just an Act! Dogs as Actors in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Europe Aline Steinbrecher (University of Konstanz, Germany)
9. Between Wild and Domestic, Animal and Human, Life and Death: The Problem of the Stray in the Victorian City Philip Howell (University of Cambridge, UK)
10. Liminal Youth between Town and Bush: Humans, Leopards and Initiation in West African History Stephanie Zehnle (University of Kassel, Germany)
11. Betwixt and Between: Making Makeshift Animals in Nineteenth-Century Zoological Gardens Wiebke Reinert (University of Kassel, Germany)
12. Liminality in the Post-War Zoo: Animals in East and West Berlin,1955-61 Mieke Roscher (University of Kassel, Germany)
13. Backyard Birds and Human-Made Bat Houses: Domiciles of the Wild in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Cities Dolly Jorgensen (University of Stavanger, Norway)
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