Mourning animals rituals and practices surrounding animal death /

Other Authors: DeMello, Margo,
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2016]
Physical Description: xxvii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Series: Animal turn.
Subjects:
Item Description: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : who goes to the rainbow bridge? : conceptions of the afterlife for non-human animals / Margo DeMello -- Photo essay : discarded property / Shannon Johnstone -- More than just a bag of bones : a history of animal burials / Ivy D. Collier -- Mourning the sacrifice : behavior and meaning behind animal burials / James Morris -- Killing (constructed) horses : interspecies elders, empathy and emotion in the Pazyryk horse sacrifices / Gala Argent -- The issue of animals' souls within the anglican debate in the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries / Alma Massaro -- Photo essay : hartsdale pet cemetery / Liza Wallis Margulies -- All the world and a little bit more : pet cemetery practices and contemporary relations between humans and their companion animals / Micha Piotr Pregowski -- "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 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 -- Photo essay: claire's last days / Julia Schlosser -- 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 non-human animals in museums / Carolyn Merino Mullin -- Photo essay: another death / Emma Kisiel -- In the heart of every horse : combating a history of slaughter in the memorialization of thoroughbred racehorses / Tamar V.S. McKee -- Creating carnivores and cannibals : animal feed and the regulation of grief / Keridiana Chez -- Mourning the mundane : memorializing road kill in North America / Linda Monahan -- Photo essay: the unmourned / Linda Brant -- 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 / Lori Gruen and Pattrice Jones -- Grieving "at a distance" / Teja Brooks Pribac -- Photo essay: the death of a pig / Jo-Anne McArthur.
Physical Description: xxvii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781611862126
1611862124