Arcadia
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.
Show search results for
Perspectives
Molding the Planet: Human Niche Construction at Work
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.
Perspectives Article
How Did Cows Construct the American Cowboy?
Timothy LeCain brings together niche construction theory and neo-materialism in an analysis of late nineteenth-century open-range cattle ranching in Montana.
Perspectives Article
Zero Budget Natural Farming and Bovine Entanglements in South India
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.
Perspectives Article
The Cattle Guard
Etienne Benson considers the role that material interventions into the vernacular landscape play in solidifying our understandings of bodily difference across species.
Arcadia
Droughts and Scarcity before Independence in the Viceroyalty of New Granada, 1800–1810
Droughts, high prices, and scarcity of food affected New Granada in the first decade of nineteenth century.
Perspectives Article
Rural Masculinities in Tension: Barriers to Climate Change Adaptation in Nicaragua
Noémi Gonda explores how the masculine figure of the cattle rancher plays a part in local explorations of climate change adaptation in Nicaragua.
Exhibition chapter
The Belly of the City | Ecopolis München 2019
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.
Multimedia | book excerpt
Animals and Society in Brazil, from the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries
Excerpt from Animals and Society in Brazil, from the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries.
Multimedia | interviews and talks
Timothy LeCain on “Japanese and American Mining Cultures: A Comparison”
Timothy LeCain, Carson Fellow from September 2011 to May 2012, discusses his comparative history of Japanese and American copper mining.