Rhoda M. Wilkie

Livestock/Deadstock: Working with Farm Animals from Birth to Slaughter

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Produktbeschreibung

Rhoda Wilkie is a lecturer in sociology at the University of Aberdeen, where she earned her doctorate in 2002. She is the co-editor (with David Inglis) of the five-volume collection, Animals and Society: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences.

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Produktdetails

• Animals Culture and Society
• Verlag: Temple University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 154mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 355g
• ISBN-13: 9781592136490
• ISBN-10: 1592136494
• Artikelnr.: 28898485

Autorenporträt

Rhoda Wilkie is a lecturer in sociology at the University of Aberdeen, where she earned her doctorate in 2002. She is the co-editor (with David Inglis) of the five-volume collection, Animals and Society: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments 
1. Food Animals: More Than a "Walking Larder"? 
2. Domestication to Industry: The Commercialization of Human—Livestock
Relations 
3. Women and livestock: The Gendered Nature of Food-Animal Production 
4. "Price Discovery": Marketing and Valuing Livestock 
5. "The Good life": Hobby Farmers and Rare Breeds of Livestock 
6. Sentient Commodities: The Ambiguous Status of Livestock 
7. Affinities and Aloofness: The Pragmatic Nature of Producer—Livestock
Relations 
8. Livestock/Deadstock: Managing the Transition from Life to Death 
9. Taking Stock: Food Animals, Ambiguous Relations, and Productive
Contexts 
Notes 
Glossary of Doric Terms 
References 
Index