Table of Contents
Foreword, by Jonathan Safran Foer
Introduction and Overview: Animal Others and Animal Studies, by Aaron Gross
Part 1. Other Animals: Animals Across Cultures
1. Hunting and Gathering as Ways of Perceiving the Environment, by Tim Ingold
2. On Yeti and Being Just: Carving the Borders of Humanity in Early Modern China, by Carla Nappi
3. Pastoral Power in the Postcolony: On the Biopolitics of the Criminal Animal in South India, by Anand Pandian
Part 2. Animal Matters: Human/Animal and the Contemporary West
4. Discipline and Distancing: Confined Pigs in the Factory Farm Gulag, by Joel Novak
5. Boys Gone Wild: The Animal and the Abject, by Cynthia Chris
6. Animal Heroes and Transforming Substance: Canine Characters in Contemporary Children's Literature, by Michelle Superle
7. The Making of a Wilderness Icon: Green Fire, Charismatic Species, and the Changing Status of Wolves in the United States, by Gavin van Horn
8. Thinking with Surfaces: Animals and Contemporary Art, by Ron Broglio
Part 3. Animal Others: Theorizing Animal/Human
9. Being with Animals: Reconsidering Heidegger's Animal Ontology, by Brett Buchanan
10. Heidegger and the Dog Whisperer: Imagining Interspecies Kindness, by Ashley E. Pryor
11. The Lives of Animals: Wittgenstein, Coetzee, and the Extent of the Sympathetic Imagination, by Undine Sellbach
12. Animal, All Too Animal: Blood Music and an Ethic of Vulnerability, by Myra J. Hird
Epilogue: Making Animals Vanish, by Wendy Doniger