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rituals and practices surrounding animal death
xxvii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
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, generall 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.
Introduction -- Discarded property -- More than just a bag of bones : a history of animal burials -- Mourning the sacrifice : behavior and meaning behind animal burials -- Horses, mourning : interspecies embodiment, belonging, and bereavement in the past and present -- The issue of animals' souls within the anglican debate in the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries -- Hartsdale pet cemetery -- All the world and a little bit more : pet cemetery practices and contemporary relations between humans and their companion animals -- To all that fly or crawl : a recent history of mourning for animals in Korea -- Freeze-drying Fido : the uncanny aesthetics of modern taxidermy -- Clutching at straws : dogs, death, and frozen semen -- I remember everything : children, companion animals, and a relational pedagogy of remembrance -- On cats and contradictions : mourning animal death in an English community -- So sorry for the loss of your little friend : pets' grievability in condolence cards for humans mourning animals -- Claire : last days -- Britain at war : remembering and forgetting the animal dead of the Second World War -- Now on exhibit : our affection for, remembrance of, and tributes to non-human animals in museums -- Another death -- In the heart of every horse : combating a history of equine exploitation and slaughter through the memorialization of an "average" thoroughbred racehorse -- Creating carnivores and cannibals : animal feed and the regulation of grief -- Mourning the mundane : memorializing road-killed animals in North America -- The unmourned -- Beyond coping : active mourning in the animal sheltering community -- Mourning for animals : a companion animal veterinarian's perspective -- You're my sanctuary : grief, vulnerability, and unexpected secondary losses for animal advocates mourning a companion animal -- Keeping ghosts close : care and grief at sanctuaries -- Grieving at a distance -- Who is it acceptable to grieve?
Includes bibliographical references and index.