Title:
Mourning animals : rituals and practices surrounding animal death / edited by Margo DeMello.
Author:
DeMello, Margo, editor.
Publication Information:
East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2016]
Call Number:
QL87.5 .M68 2016
Abstract:
We live more intimately with nonhuman animals than ever before in history. The change in the way we cohabitate with animals can be seen in the way we treat them when they die. There is an almost infinite variety of ways to help us cope with the loss of our nonhuman friends--from burial, cremation, and taxidermy; to wearing or displaying the remains (ashes, fur, or other parts) of our deceased animals in jewelry, tattoos, or other artwork; to counselors who specialize in helping people mourn pets; to classes for veterinarians; to tips to help the surviving animals who are grieving for their animal friends; to pet psychics and memorial websites. But the reality is that these practices, and related beliefs about animal souls or animal afterlife, generally only extend, with very few exceptions, to certain kinds of animals--pets. Most animals, in most cultures, are not mourned, and the question of an animal afterlife is not contemplated at all. Mourning Animals investigates how we mourn animal deaths, which animals are grievable, and what the implications are for all animals. --Dust jacket.
ISBN:
9781611862126
Series:
The animal turn
Animal turn.
Physical Description:
xxvii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Contents:
Introduction : who goes to the rainbow bridge? : conceptions of the afterlife for non-human animals / Margo DeMello -- Photo essay : discarded property / Shannon Johnstone -- Part 1: When did we start caring about animal death? -- 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 -- Part 2: Companion animals : those we love -- 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 -- Part 3: Memorials and the "special" treatment of the dead -- 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 -- Part 4: Animals we do not mourn -- 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 -- Part 5: Problems with coping and human responsibility -- 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: who is it acceptable to grieve? / Jo-Anne McArthur.
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