Trying to give an overview of the burgeoning area known as animal studies is, if you'll permit
me the expression, a bit like herding cats. My recourse to that analogy is meant to suggest …

How the lives and labors of nineteenth-century circus elephants shaped the entertainment
industry. Consider the career of an enduring if controversial icon of American entertainment …

Early Christian theology posited a strict division between animals and humans.
Nevertheless, animal figures abound in early Christian literature and art—from Augustine's …

Traditionally, sociology has spent much more time exploring relationships between humans,
than between humans and other animals. However, this relative neglect is starting to be …

Lucinda Cole: In his 2003 book, Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species,
and Posthumanist Theory, Cary Wolfe attempts to develop a posthuman-ist account of the …

The growing popularity of relational approaches to agency amongst archaeologists has led
to increased attention on the specific contexts of interaction between humans and their …

Taking their cue from the specific'animal moments' that punctuate our relationships with
nonhuman animals, experts from the biological sciences, humanities, and social sciences …

The rapidly growing field of human-animal studies (HAS) is a vibrant, varied domain of
methodological convergences and divergences, united by a shared concern with studying …

Provincial Park in Ontario (Runtz 1997, 84). The Wolf Howl, an event where campers meet at
a designated point to listen to the baying of wolves, soon became a tradition in the park and …

This 'Rumination'updates my original 'Rumination'on animal history from 2006 and looks
back over the past fifteen years at the ways that the field of animal history has developed. It …