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Title Animal geographies : place, politics, and identity in the nature-culture borderlands / edited by Jennifer Wolch and Jody Emel
Published London ; New York : Verso, 1998

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Description xxii, 310 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents Witnessing the animal moment / Jody Emel and Jennifer Wolch -- Animals, science, and spectacle in the city / Kay Anderson -- Animals, geography, and the city : notes on inclusions and exclusions / Chris Philo -- Le pratique sauvage : race, place, and the human-animal divide / Glen Elder, Jennifer Wolch, and Jody Emel -- Are you man enough, big and bad enough? : wolf eradication in the US / Jody Emel -- Zoƶpolis / Jennifer Wolch -- The cougar's tale / Andrea Gullo, Unna Lassiter, and Jennifer Wolch -- Golden eagles and the environmental politics of care / Suzanne M. Michel -- The spotted owl and the contested moral landscape of the Pacific Northwest / James D. Proctor -- Shrines and butchers : animals as deities, capital, and meat in contemporary North India / Paul Robbins -- Building a better pig : fat profits in lean meat / Frances M. Ufkes -- The "right of thirst" for animals in Islamic law : a comparative approach / James L. Wescoat, Jr. -- Animals, ethics, and geography / William S. Lynn
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Human-animal relationships -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Wildlife utilization -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Animals -- Social aspects.
Animals -- Economic aspects.
Author Wolch, Jennifer R., editor
Emel, Jody, editor
LC no. 98029363
ISBN 1859841376 (paperback)
9781859841372 (paperback)
1859848311 (cloth)
9781859848319 (cloth)