{"product_id":"indigenous-creatures-native-knowledges-and-the-arts-animal-studies-in-modern-worlds-9783319568737","title":"Indigenous Creatures, Native Knowledges, and the Arts: Animal Studies in Modern Worlds","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Wendy Woodward\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Comparative Literature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Traditionally, important books concerning animals report scientific views. \u003ci\u003eIndigenous Creatures, Native Knowledge, and the\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eArts\u003c\/i\u003e is an important book concerning animals that reports artistic views held by a wide array of people from a variety of cultures. Considering that art was the method used by the earliest members of our species to represent animals, this says a great deal about us and our biophilic views. It's fascinating, and no wonder, as we all have some desire to connect with other species, and we can rely on this book, which is written with scholarly care.' -- \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Marshall Thomas, \u003c\/b\u003eauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe Harmless People\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Hidden Life of Dogs\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Animal Wife\u003c\/i\u003e, USA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis volume illuminates how creative representations remain sites of ongoing struggles to engage with animals in indigenous epistemologies. Traditionally imagined in relation to spiritual realms and the occult, animals have always been more than primitive symbols of human relations. Whether as animist gods, familiars, conduits to ancestors, totems, talismans, or co-creators of multispecies cosmologies, animals act as vital players in the lives of cultures. From early days in colonial contact zones through contemporary expressions in art, film, and literature, the volume's unique emphasis on Southern Africa and North America - historical loci of the greatest ranges of species and linguistic diversity - help to situate how indigenous knowledges of human-animal relations are being adapted to modern conditions of life shared across species lines.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWendy Woodward is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Animal Gaze: Animal Subjectivities in Southern African Narratives\u003c\/i\u003e (2008). She co-edited a special issue of \u003ci\u003eJournal of Literary Studies\u003c\/i\u003e entitled \u003ci\u003eFiguring the Animal in Post-apartheid South Africa\u003c\/i\u003e (2014) and has published three volumes of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSusan McHugh is the author of \u003ci\u003eAnimal Stories: Narrating across Species Lines\u003c\/i\u003e (2011) as well as \u003ci\u003eDog \u003c\/i\u003e(2004). She co-edited \u003ci\u003eThe Routledge Handbook of Human-Animal Studies \u003c\/i\u003e(2014), and \u003ci\u003eLiterary Animals Look\u003c\/i\u003e, a special issue of \u003ci\u003eAntennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (2013).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45280179978391,"sku":"9783319568737","price":8079.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783319568737.webp?v=1769295568","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/indigenous-creatures-native-knowledges-and-the-arts-animal-studies-in-modern-worlds-9783319568737","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}