Jane C Desmond: 3 books
Displaying Death and Animating Life
Human-Animal Relations in Art, Science, and Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
The number of ways in which humans interact with animals is almost incalculable. From beloved household pets to the steak on our dinner tables, the fur in our closets to the Babar books on our shelves, taxidermy exhibits to local zoos, humans have complex, deep, and dependent relationships with the...
Meaning in Motion
New Cultural Studies of Dance
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1997
Dance, whether considered as an art form or embodied social practice, as product or process, is a prime subject for cultural analysis. Yet only recently have studies of dance become concerned with the ideological, theoretical, and social meanings of dance practices, performances, and institutions....
The Vicuña
The Theory and Practice of Community Based Wildlife Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Things have changed. In 1969 when the Convention for the Conservation of the Vicuña was drafted, in an attempt to save the vicuña from its tumbling decline towards extinction, both the science and the philosophy of wildlife conservation were radically different. It is thus a tribute to the prescience...