Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Discarded Property / Mary Shannon Johnstone
Part 1. When Did We Start Caring about Animal Death?
More than a Bag of Bones: A History of Animal Burials / Ivy D. Collier
Mourning the Sacrifice: Behavior and Meaning behind Animal Burials / James Morris
Horses, Mourning: Interspecies Embodiment, Belonging, and Bereavement in the Past and Present / Gala Argent
The Issue of Animals’ Souls within the Anglican Debate in the Eighteenth to Nineteenth Centuries / Alma Massaro
Hartsdale Pet Cemetery / Liza Wallis Margulies
Part 2. Companion Animals: Those We Love
All the World and a Little Bit More: Pet Cemetery Practices and Contemporary Relations between Humans and Their Companion Animals / Michał Piotr Pręgowski
To All that Fly or Crawl: A Recent History of Mourning for Animals in Korea / Elmer Veldkamp
Freeze-Drying Fido: The Uncanny Aesthetics of Modern Taxidermy / Christina M. Colvin
Clutching at Straws: Dogs, Death, and Frozen Semen / Chrissie Wanner
I Remember Everything: Children, Companion Animals, and a Relational Pedagogy of Remembrance / Joshua Russell
On Cats and Contradictions: Mourning Animal Death in an English Community / Becky Tipper
So Sorry for the Loss of Your Little Friend: Pets’ Grievability in Condolence Cards for Humans Mourning Animals / David Redmalm
Claire: Last Days / Julia Schlosser
Part 3. Memorials and the “Special” Treatment of the Dead
Britain at War: Remembering and Forgetting the Animal Dead of the Second World War / Hilda Kean
Now on Exhibit: Our Affection for, Remembrance of, and Tributes to Nonhuman Animals in Museums / Carolyn Merino Mullin
Another Death / Emma Kisiel
Part 4. Animals We Do Not Mourn
In the Heart of Every Horse: Combating a History of Equine Exploitation and Slaughter through the Commemoration of an “Average” Thoroughbred Racehorse / Tamar V. S. McKee
Creating Carnivores and Cannibals: Animal Feed and the Regulation of Grief / Keridiana Chez
Mourning the Mundane: Memorializing Road-Killed Animals in North America / Linda Monahan
The Unmourned / Linda Brant
Part 5. Problems with Coping and Human Responsibility
Beyond Coping: Active Mourning in the Animal Sheltering Community / Jessica Austin
Mourning for Animals: A Companion Animal Veterinarian’s Perspective / Anne Fawcett
You’re My Sanctuary: Grief, Vulnerability, and Unexpected Secondary Losses for Animal Advocates Mourning a Companion Animal / Nicole R. Pallotta
Keeping Ghosts Close: Care and Grief at Sanctuaries / pattrice jones and Lori Gruen
Grieving at a Distance / Teya Brooks Pribac
Who Is It Acceptable to Grieve? / Jo-Anne McArthur
Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index