Animal History after Its Triumph

Unexpected Animals, Evolutionary Approaches, and the Animal Lens

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8096943
AutoresJoshua Specht (0000-0002-1199-734X, Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen14
Número7
Páginas326-336
Fecha de publicación2016-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHistory Compass (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1478-0542 • E-ISSN: 1478-0542
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/hic3.12322
OpenAlexW2477022241
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas17
Referencias citadas59

Part of a broad animal turn in the humanities, animal history is now a large, mature field. Taking the triumph of animal history as a starting point, this essay draws from scholarship on a diversity of places and time periods to provide a state of the field. The discussion opens with an account of a central theme in animal history: the “animal lens.” This lens uses animals to explore broad historical phenomena, from industrialization to ideas about gender. Next is a discussion of two recent trends in animal history: (1) scholarship on “unexpected animals” and (2) evolutionary history, which examines how humans have shaped animal bodies over time. The overview closes with a discussion of agency, suggesting that the field abandons this paradigm

Agency (philosophy · Diversity (politics · Environmental ethics · Field (mathematics · Political science · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Theme (computing · Anthropology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology