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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 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, generally 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.
Contents
Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Discarded Property / Mary Shannon Johnstone Part 1. When Did We Start Caring about Animal Death? More than a Bag of Bones: A History of Animal Burials / Ivy D. Collier Mourning the Sacrifice: Behavior and Meaning behind Animal Burials / James Morris Horses, Mourning: Interspecies Embodiment, Belonging, and Bereavement in the Past and Present / Gala Argent The Issue of Animals' Souls within the Anglican Debate in the Eighteenth to Nineteenth Centuries / Alma Massaro Hartsdale Pet Cemetery / Liza Wallis Margulies Part 2. Companion Animals: Those We Love All the World and a Little Bit More: Pet Cemetery Practices and Contemporary Relations between Humans and Their Companion Animals / Michał Piotr Pręgowski To All that Fly or Crawl: A Recent History of Mourning for Animals in Korea / Elmer Veldkamp Freeze-Drying Fido: The Uncanny Aesthetics of Modern Taxidermy / Christina M. Colvin Clutching at Straws: Dogs, Death, and Frozen Semen / Chrissie Wanner I Remember Everything: Children, Companion Animals, and a Relational Pedagogy of Remembrance / Joshua Russell On Cats and Contradictions: Mourning Animal Death in an English Community / Becky Tipper So Sorry for the Loss of Your Little Friend: Pets' Grievability in Condolence Cards for Humans Mourning Animals / David Redmalm Claire: Last Days / Julia Schlosser Part 3. Memorials and the "Special" Treatment of the Dead Britain at War: Remembering and Forgetting the Animal Dead of the Second World War / Hilda Kean Now on Exhibit: Our Affection for, Remembrance of, and Tributes to Nonhuman Animals in Museums / Carolyn Merino Mullin Another Death / Emma Kisiel Part 4. Animals We Do Not Mourn In the Heart of Every Horse: Combating a History of Equine Exploitation and Slaughter through the Commemoration of an "Average" Thoroughbred Racehorse / Tamar V. S. McKee Creating Carnivores and Cannibals: Animal Feed and the Regulation of Grief / Keridiana Chez Mourning the Mundane: Memorializing Road-Killed Animals in North America / Linda Monahan The Unmourned / Linda Brant Part 5. Problems with Coping and Human Responsibility Beyond Coping: Active Mourning in the Animal Sheltering Community / Jessica Austin Mourning for Animals: A Companion Animal Veterinarian's Perspective / Anne Fawcett You're My Sanctuary: Grief, Vulnerability, and Unexpected Secondary Losses for Animal Advocates Mourning a Companion Animal / Nicole R. Pallotta Keeping Ghosts Close: Care and Grief at Sanctuaries / pattrice jones and Lori Gruen Grieving at a Distance / Teya Brooks Pribac Who Is It Acceptable to Grieve? / Jo-Anne McArthur Bibliography About the Contributors Index
