Historian, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations Edited by Deborah Bird Rose, Thom van Dooren, and Matthew Chrulew. Foreword by Cary Wolfe Columbia University Press, 2017 Extinction Studies focuses on the entangled ecological and social dimensions of extinction, exploring
Becoming Centaur: Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship By Monica Mattfeld Penn State UP (Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures), 2016 In this study of the relationship between men and their horses in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, Monica Mattfeld explores the experience of
A nice review of Elephant House has appeared in the Shepherd Express by David Luhrssen: http://shepherdexpress.com/article-28699-elephant-house-%28pennsylvania-state-university-press%29-by-dick-blau-and-nigel-rothfels.html
Conflict, Negotiation, and Coexistence: Rethinking Human-Elephant Relations in South Asia Edited by Piers Locke and Jane Buckingham Oxford University Press, 2016 This new book arises from an international symposium that took place at the University of Canterbury in 2013. It
Mourning Animals: Rituals and Practices Surrounding Animal Death by Margo DeMello Michigan State University (Animal Turn Series) We live more intimately with nonhuman animals than ever before in history. The change in the way we cohabitate with animals can be seen in the
Literature and Animal Studies by Mario Orbitz Robles Routledge Why do animals talk in literature? In this provocative book, Mario Ortiz Robles tracks the presence of animals across an expansive literary archive to argue that literature cannot be understood as a human endeavour apart
Guinea Pig By Dorothy Yamamoto Reaktion Guinea pigs are one of the world’s most popular pets – small, friendly, easy to care for and unbearably cute. First domesticated in 5000 BCE, guinea pigs have been bred increasingly for their looks, shaped by humans in
Flamingo By Caitlin R. Kight Reaktion With its distinctive pink colouring and one-legged stance, the flamingo is possibly the most easily recognized bird in the world. But what most of us don’t know is that there are actually six different species
Sheep By Philip Armstrong Reaktion The Egyptians worshipped them, the Romans dressed them in fitted coats, early Christians made the shepherd synonymous with their divine saviour. In Sheep, Philip Armstrong traces the natural and cultural history of both the wild and
Beast-People Onscreen and in Your Brain: The Evolution of Animal-Humans from Prehistoric Cave Art to Modern Movies By Mark Pizzato Praeger 2016 A new take on our bio-cultural evolution explores how the “inner theatre” of the brain and its “animal-human stages”