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Beastly Natures: Animals, Humans, and the Study of History
Dorothee Brantz
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Description for Beastly Natures: Animals, Humans, and the Study of History
Hardcover. Editor(s): Brantz, Dorothee. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: HB; WNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 578.
Although the animal may be, as Nietzsche argued, ahistorical, living completely in the present, it nonetheless plays a crucial role in human history. The fascination with animals that leads not only to a desire to observe and even live alongside them, but to capture or kill them, is found in all civilizations. The essays collected in Beastly Natures show how animals have been brought into human culture, literally helping to build our societies (as domesticated animals have done) or contributing, often in problematic ways, to our concept of the wild.
The book begins with a group of essays that ... Read more
Although the animal may be, as Nietzsche argued, ahistorical, living completely in the present, it nonetheless plays a crucial role in human history. The fascination with animals that leads not only to a desire to observe and even live alongside them, but to capture or kill them, is found in all civilizations. The essays collected in Beastly Natures show how animals have been brought into human culture, literally helping to build our societies (as domesticated animals have done) or contributing, often in problematic ways, to our concept of the wild.
The book begins with a group of essays that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813929477
SKU
V9780813929477
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About Dorothee Brantz
Dorothee Brantz is Director of the Center for Metropolitan Studies at Technische Universität Berlin.
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