<strong>Representing Animals</strong> explores the complex and often surprising connectionsbetween our imagining of animals and our cultural environment. The co... » 

Representing Animals explores the complex and often surprising connectionsbetween our imagining of animals and our cultural environment. The contributors historians literary critics anthropologists artists art historians andscholars of cultural studies examine the ways we talk write photographimagine and otherwise represent animals. The book includes topics such as petcloning fox hunting animatronic characters and how we displace our fear ofaging onto our dogs.Representing Animals demonstrates the deep connections between the way we thinkabout animals and the way we have thought about ourselves and our cultures indifferent times and places. Its publication marks a formative moment in theemerging field of animal studies. «