Front Matter

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Traces of the Animal Past 1
4. Embodied Histories
5. Kicking over the Traces? Freeing the Animal from the Archive 19
6. Occupational Hazards: Honeybee Labour as an Interpretive Device in Animal History 49
7. Hearing History through Hoof beats:Exploring Equine Volition and Voice in the Archive 73
8. Traces
9. Who is a Greyhound? Reflections on the Non-Human Digital Archive 91
10. Accessing Animal Health Knowledge: Popular Educators and Veterinary Science in Rural Ontario 117
11. Animal Cruelty, Metaphoric Narrative, and the Hudson’s Bay Company, 1919–1939 137
12. The Unknowable Animal
13. Vanishing Flies and the Lady Entomologist 157
14. Guinea Pig Agnotology 175
15. Tuffy’s Cold War: Science, Memory, and the US Navy’s Dolphin 199
16. The Elephant in the Archive 217
17. Spatial Sources and Animal Movement
18. Making Tracks: A Grizzly and Entangled History 235
19. Spatial Analysis and Digital Urban Animal History 269
20. Visualizing the Animal City: Digital Experiments in Animal History 291
21. What’s a Guanaco? Tracing the Llama Diaspora through and beyond South America 315
22. Looking at Animals
23. Hidden in Plain Sight: How Art and Visual Culture Can Help Us Think about Animal Histories 339
24. Creatures on Display: Making an Animal Exhibit at the Archives of Ontario 357
25. Portraits of Extinction: Encountering Bluebuck Narratives in the Natural History Museum 371
26. Epilogue: Combinations and Conjunction 389
27. Contributors 403
28. Index 409