Resources

Topics:
1. What organizations do I join?
2. Where can I go study the subject?
3. What are the seminal books?
4. Academic Journals

1. What organizations do I join?

Scholars studying animals and the human-animal relationship may be interested in any of several organizations:

International Society for Anthrozoology. The organization’s membership and listserve are by application only, and the organization publishes its own journal, Anthrozoos.
The "Animals and Society" section of the American Sociological Association
NILAS

2. Where can I go to study the Subject?

While there are no “Animals Studies” majors or departments in any universities across the world, there are a number of disciplinary and interdisciplinary centers where scholars study animals as part of human culture.

These include a number of centers, most located within veterinary schools, which are dedicated to the study of the human-animal bond in the present:

3. What are the Seminal Books?

Please also see the Bibliography compiled by the Ecological & Cultural Change Studies Group at Michigan State University

Adams, Carol J. and Josephine Donovan, eds. Animals and Women: Feminist Theoretical Explorations. Durham: Duke UP, 1995.

Adams, Carol J. The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory. New York: Continuum, 1990.

Allen, Mary. Animals in American Literature. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1983.

Arluke, Arnold and Clinton R. Sanders. Regarding Animals. Philadelphia: Temple U P, 1996.

Baker, Steve and Carol J. Adams. Picturing the Beast: Animals, Identity, and Representation. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.

Arluke, Arnold and Boria Sax. “Understanding Nazi Animal Protection and the Holocaust,” Anthrozoos v. 5 n. 1 (1992).

Baker, Steve. The Postmodern Animal. London: Reaktion, 2000.

Baratay, Eric. Zoo: A History of Zoological Gardens in the West. London: Reaktion, 2002.

Berger, John. "Vanishing Animals." New Society March 31, 1977.

Berger, John. "Why Look at Animals?" About Looking. New York: Pantheon, 1980: 1-26.

Berger, John. "Why Zoos Disappoint." New Society April 21, 1977.

Blunt, Wilfred. The Ark in the Park: The Zoo in the Nineteenth Century. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1976.

Bulliet, Richard. Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers: The Past and Future of Human-Animal Relationships. Columbia UP: 2005.

Burt, Jonathan. Animals in Film. London: Reaktion, 2002.

Cartmill, Matt. A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature Through History. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1993.

Clark, Kenneth. Animals and Men: Their Relationship as Reflected in Western Art from Prehistory to the Present Day. London: Thames and Hudson, 1977.

Cockburn, Alexander. “A Short, Meat-Oriented History of the World,” New Left Review 215 (1996): 16-42.

Coetze, J.M. The Lives of Animals. Princeton UP, 1999.

Creager, Angela, N. H. and William Chester Jordan, Eds. The Animal-Human Boundary: Historical Perspectives. U Rochester P, 2002.

Cronan, William, ed. Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996

Dekkers, Midas. Dearest Pet: On Beastiality. Paul Vincent, trans. Chicago: University of Chicago P, 1994.

Deleuze, Gilles and Felix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Trans. Brian Massumi. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1987.

Derrida, Jacques. "The Animal That Therefore I Am (More to Follow)." Trans. David Wills, Critical Inquiry 28 (2002): 373-4

. Derrida, Jacques. "'Eating Well,' or the Calculation of the Subject: An Interview with Jacques Derrida." In Who Comes After the Subject? Eds. Eduardo Cadava, Peter Connor, and Jean-Luc Nancy. Trans. Peter Connor and Avital Ronell. New York: Routledge, 1991: 96-119.

Donald, Diana. "'Beastly Sights': The Treatment of Animals as a Moral Theme in Representations of London, c. 1820-1850." Art History 22.4 (1999)

Evans, Edward Payson. The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals: The Lost History of Europe's Animal Trials. (1906). Rpt. London: Faber and Faber, 1988.

Ferguson, Moira. Animal Advocacy and Englishwomen, 1780-1900: Patriots, Nation, and Empire. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1998.

French, R. D. Antivisection and Medical Science in Victorian Society. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1975.

Fudge, Erica, Ruth Gilber, and Susan Wiseman, ed. At the Borders of the Human: Beasts, Bodies and Natural Philosophy. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 199.

Fudge, Erica. Animal. London: Reaktion, 2002.

Fudge, Erica. Perceiving Animals: Humans and Beasts in Early Modern Culture. Champaign: U of Illinois P, 2002.

Fuss, Diana, ed. Human, All Too Human. London: Routledge, 1996.

Garber, Marjorie. Dog Love. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.

Ham, Jennifer and Matthew Senior, eds. Animal Acts: Configuring the Human in Western History. NY: Routledge, 1997.

Hancocks, David. A Different Nature: The Paradoxical World of Zoos and Their Uncertain Future. Berkeley: U of California P. 2001.

Hanson, Elizabeth. Animal Attractions: Nature on Display in American Zoos. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2002

Harraway, Donna. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. New York: Routledge, 1991.

Harraway, Donna. "Teddy Bear Patriarchy: Taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-36," Social Text, no. 11, winter 1984/85, pp. 19-64.

Harrison, Brian. "Animals and the State in Nineteenth-Century England." English Historical Review 88 (1973):

Harrison, Brian. Peaceable Kingdom: Stability and Change in Modern Britain. Oxford UP, 1982.

Harwood, Dix. Love for Animals and How It Developed in Great Britain. New York: Columbia UP, 1928.

Hearne, Vicki. Adam's Task: Calling Animals by Name. New York: Random House, 1987.

Hearne, Vicki. Animal Happiness. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.

Hearne, Vicki. "A Taxonomy of Knowing: Animals Captive, Free-Ranging, and at Liberty." In Mack, Adrien, ed. Humans and Other Animals: 25-40.

Henninger-Voss, Mary J., ed. Animals in Human Histories: The Mirror of Nature and Culture. Rochester: U of Rochester P, 2002.

Hoage, R., ed. Perceptions of Animals in American Culture (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989)

Hoage, R. J. and William Deiss, ed. New Worlds, New Animals: From Menagerie to Zoological Park I the Nineteenth Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1996.

Ingold, Tim, ed. What Is an Animal? New York: Routledge, 1994.

Ingold, Tim. “From Trust to Domination: an alternative history of human-animal relations,” in Animals and Human Society: Changing Perspectives, edited by Aubrey Manning and James Serpell (London: Routledge, 1994): 1-22.

Jacobs, Nancy J. “The Great Bophuthatswana Donkey Massacre: Discourse on the Ass and the Politics of Class and Grass,” AHR 106 (2001): 485-507.

Jones, Susan. Valuing Animals: Veterinarians and Their Patients in Modern America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2003

Kean, Hilda. Animal Rights: Political and Social Change in Britain Since 1800. London: Reaktion, 1998.

Kenyon-Jones, Christine. Kindred Brutes: Animals in Romantic Period Writing. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2001.

Kete, Kathleen. The Beast in the Boudoir: Petkeeping in Nineteenth-Century Paris. London: U of California P, 1994

. Lansbury, Coral. The Old Brown Dog: Women, Workers and Vivisection in Edwardian England. U of Wisconsin P, 1985.

Lippit, Akira Mizuta. Electric Animal: Toward a Rhetoric of Wildlife. Minneapolis: U of Minnesta P, 2000.

Mack, Adrien, ed. Humans and Other Animals. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1995.

Malamud, Randy. Reading Zoos: Representations of Animals and Captivity. 1998.

Malcomson, Robert and Stehanos Mastoris. The English Pig: A History. London, 1998.

Marchant, Ronald A. Man and Beast. New York: Macmillan, 1968.

Mason, Jennifer. Civilized Creatures: Urban Animals, Sentimental Culture, and American Literature, 1850-1900. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.

Mastromarino, Mark A. "Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks: The English Mastiff and the Anglo-American Experince." The Historian 49 (1986): 10-25.

McGinn, Colin. "Animal Minds, Animal Morality." Social Research 62.3 (1995).

Midgley, Mary. Animals and Why They Matter.

Mitman, Greg. Reel Nature: America's Romance with Wildlife on Film. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1999.

Mullen, Bob and Garry Marvin. Zoo Culture. London: George Weidenfeld, 1987.

Mullin, Molly H. "Mirrors and Windows: Sociocultural Studies of Human-Animal Relationships," Annual Review of Anthropology 28 (1999): 201–24.

Noske, Barbara. Humans and Other Animals: Beyond the Boundaries of Anthropology. London: Pluto Press, 1985.

Perkins, David. Romanticism and Animal Rights. Cambridge UP, 2003.

Phineas, Charles [pseud.] "Household Pets and Urbana Alienation." Journal of Social History 7.3 (1974): 338-43.

Regan, Tom. The Case for Animal Rights. Berkeley: U of California P, 1983.

Ritvo, Harriet. The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1987.

Ritvo, Harriet. The Platypus and the Mermaid, and Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1997.

Robbins, Louise E. Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Paris. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2002.

Rothfels, Nigel, ed. Representing Animals. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2002.

Rothfels, Nigel. Savages and Beasts: The Birth of the Modern Zoo. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2002.

Rowland, Beryl. Animals with Human Faces: A Guide to Animal Symbolism. Knoxville: University of Tennessee P, 1973.

Rupke, Nicolaas.A., ed. Vivisection in Historical Perspective. New York : Croom Helm, 1987.

Sabloff, Annabelle. Reordering the Natural World: Humans and Animals in the City. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001.

Salisbury, Joyce. The Beast Within: Animals in the Middle Ages. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Serpell, James. In the Company of Animals: A Study of Human Animal Relationships. New York: Blackwell, 1986.

Sheeham, James J. and Morton Sosna, eds. The Boundaries of Humanity: Humans, Animals, and Machines. U California P, 1991.

Shell, Marc. "The Family Pet." Representations 15 (1986): 121-53.

Simons, John. "The Longest Revolution: Cultural Studies after Speciesism." Environmental Values 6 (1997): 489-97.

Singer, Peter. Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals. New York: Avon Books, 1975.

Sorobji, Richard. Animal Minds and Human Morals: The Origins of the Western Debate. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1993.

Spiegel, Marjorie and Alice Walker. The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery. London: Heretic, 1988.

Steeves, H. Peter. Animal Others: On Ethics, Ontology, and Animal Life. Albany: State U of New York P, 1999.

Tester, Keith. Animals and Society: The Humanity of Animal Rights. New York: Routledge, 1991.

Thomas, Keith. Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England, 1500-1800. London: Allen Lane, 1983.

Tropp, Jacob. “Dogs, Poison, and the Meaning of Colonial Intervention in the Transkei, South Africa,” Journal of African History 43 (2002): 451-72.

Tuan, Yi-Fu. Dominance and Affection: The Making of Pets. New Haven: Yale UP, 1984.

Turner, James. Reckoning with the Beast: Animals, Pain, and Humanity in the Victorian Mind. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1980.

Walton, John K. "Mad Dogs and Englishmen: The Conflict over Rabies in Late Victorian England." Journal of Social History 13, no. 3 (1979).

Wolch, Jennifer and Jody Emel, eds. Animal Geographies: Places, Politics and Identity at the Nature-Culture Borderland. London: Verso, 1998.

Wolfe, Cary. Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003.

Wolfe, Cary. Critical Environments: Postmodern Theory and the Pragmatics of the "Outside." Minneapolis: U Minnesota P, 1998.

Wolfe, Cary, ed. Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2003.