To see accurate pricing, please choose your delivery country.
 
 
United States
£ GBP
All Shops

British Wildlife

8 issues per year 84 pages per issue Subscription only

British Wildlife is the leading natural history magazine in the UK, providing essential reading for both enthusiast and professional naturalists and wildlife conservationists. Published eight times a year, British Wildlife bridges the gap between popular writing and scientific literature through a combination of long-form articles, regular columns and reports, book reviews and letters.

Subscriptions from £33 per year

Conservation Land Management

4 issues per year 44 pages per issue Subscription only

Conservation Land Management (CLM) is a quarterly magazine that is widely regarded as essential reading for all who are involved in land management for nature conservation, across the British Isles. CLM includes long-form articles, events listings, publication reviews, new product information and updates, reports of conferences and letters.

Subscriptions from £26 per year
Academic & Professional Books  Natural History  General Natural History

Killing Animals

By: Animal Studies Group
224 pages, 16 photos
Killing Animals
Click to have a closer look
Select version
  • Killing Animals ISBN: 9780252072901 Paperback Feb 2006 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 6 days
    £23.99
    #155348
  • Killing Animals ISBN: 9780252030505 Hardback May 2006 Out of Print #155347
Selected version: £23.99
About this book Contents Customer reviews Related titles

About this book

Though not often acknowledged openly, killing represents by far the most common form of human interaction with animals. Humans kill animals for food, for pleasure, to wear, and even as religious acts, yet despite the ubiquity of this killing, analyzing the practice has generally remained the exclusive purview of animal rights advocates.

Killing Animals offers a corrective to this narrow focus by bringing together the insights of scholars from diverse backgrounds in the humanities, including art history, anthropology, intellectual history, philosophy, literary studies, and geography. These essays, conceived as parts of a larger whole from their inception, together reveal the complexity of the killing phenomenon by exploring the extraordinary diversity in killing practices and the wide variety of meanings attached to them. They examine aspects of the role of animals in human societies, from the seventeenth century to the present day: their cultural manifestations, and how they have been represented. Topics include hunting and baiting; slaughter practices and the treatment of feral and stray animals; animal death in art, literature and philosophy; and even animals that themselves become killers of humans.


THE ANIMAL STUDIES GROUP consists of the following British scholars: Steve Baker (art history, University of Central Lancashire), Jonathan Burt (independent scholar), Diana Donald (art history, Manchester Metropolitan University), Erica Fudge (history, Middlesex University), Garry Marvin (anthropology, University of Surrey Roehampton), Robert McKay (literature, Sheffield University), Clare Palmer (philosopy and environmental studies, Washington University in St. Louis), and Chris Wilbert (geography, Anglia Polytechnic University).

Contents

The Animal Studies Group consists of the following scholars: Steve Baker (art history, University of Central Lancashire); Jonathan Burt; Diana Donald (art history, Manchester Metropolitan University); Erica Fudge (history, Middelsex University); Garry Marvin (anthropology, University of Surrey Roehampton); Robert McKay (literature, Sheffield University); Clare Palmer (art history, Lancaster University); Chris Wilbert (geography, Anglia Polytechnic University)

Customer Reviews

By: Animal Studies Group
224 pages, 16 photos
Media reviews
The eight contributors to the collection entitled Killing Animals" provide sufficiently diverse perspectives on the subject to make this book a worthwhile addition to the growing literature regarding animal rights and wrongs."--"H-Ani""mal"
Current promotions
New and Forthcoming BooksNHBS Moth TrapBritish Wildlife MagazineBuyers Guides