“The ‘Normative Forces’ of Difference: Ecology, Economy and Society during Cattle Plagues in the Eighteenth Century”
Dominik Hünniger writes about the cattle plagues in the eighteenth century.
Dominik Hünniger writes about the cattle plagues in the eighteenth century.
Excerpt from Animals and Society in Brazil, from the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries.
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.
Noémi Gonda explores how the masculine figure of the cattle rancher plays a part in local explorations of climate change adaptation in Nicaragua.
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.
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Etienne Benson considers the role that material interventions into the vernacular landscape play in solidifying our understandings of bodily difference across species.
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.
Timothy LeCain brings together niche construction theory and neo-materialism in an analysis of late nineteenth-century open-range cattle ranching in Montana.
The Moo Man was filmed over four years on the marshes of Sussex, and tells the story of a maverick organic dairy farmer and his small herd of unruly cows.