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2 books match the query 'Kalof, Linda'
Making Animal Meaning
Linda Kalof
Michigan State University Press, 2012
An elucidating collection of ten original essays, Making Animal Meaning reconceptualizes methods for researching animal histories and rethinks the contingency of the human-animal relationship. The vibrant and diverse field of animal studies is detailed in these interdisciplinary discussions, which include voices from a broad range of scholars and have an extensive chronological and geographical reach. These exciting discourses capture the most compelling theoretical underpinnings of animal significance while exploring meaning-making through the study of specific spaces, species, and human-animal relations. A deeply thoughtful collection — vital to understanding central questions of agency, kinship, and animal consumption — these essays tackle the history and philosophy of constructing animal meaning.
Speaking of Real Animals and Their History
From the Deep Past to the PresentLinda Kalof
Michigan State University Press, 2027
Speaking of Real Animals and Their History offers an interdisciplinary exploration of animal lives across time, from dinosaurs and long-extinct cave bears to contemporary animals like the giant panda and bald eagles. Drawing on iconography, palaeozoology, zooarchaeology, osteobiography, and textual accounts that document animals’ natural behaviors, Linda Kalof reconstructs in vivid prose a synthesis of interdisciplinary research on the life histories of animals through a realist lens, presenting true‑to‑life portraits of the creatures who have lived on Earth across time.