Animal Rights vs. Bullfights: The Horns of an Indian Dilemma
Animal rights prevailed over bullfights in a recent judgment of the Supreme Court of India.
Animal rights prevailed over bullfights in a recent judgment of the Supreme Court of India.
This volume explores some of the diverse niches created by humans in different times and places. The essays span the globe, from Texas to China, from Scandinavia to Papua New Guinea, exploring agricultural spaces and indoor biomes, human aesthetics, and Anthropocentric perspectives.
Timothy LeCain brings together niche construction theory and neo-materialism in an analysis of late nineteenth-century open-range cattle ranching in Montana.
Daniel Münster takes us to the troubled history of improving dairy production in India, from the crossbreeding and high-cost industrialized care of delicate hybrids to the equally complex implications of a native-cow revival.
Etienne Benson considers the role that material interventions into the vernacular landscape play in solidifying our understandings of bodily difference across species.
Droughts, high prices, and scarcity of food affected New Granada in the first decade of nineteenth century.
Noémi Gonda explores how the masculine figure of the cattle rancher plays a part in local explorations of climate change adaptation in Nicaragua.
The Belly of the City: What lies hidden deep within Munich? Although in many other cities the central slaughterhouses have long since been shut down, animals are still butchered in the middle of Munich even today.
Excerpt from Animals and Society in Brazil, from the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries.
Timothy LeCain, Carson Fellow from September 2011 to May 2012, discusses his comparative history of Japanese and American copper mining.