Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. 1. Introduction: Passionate Encounters with Animals in Everyday Life—Beyond the Mainstream 1
5. PART ONE. Theaters of the Dead: Humans and Nonhuman Animals
6. 2. Postmortem Exhibitions: Taxidermied Animals and Plastinated Corpses in the Theaters of the Dead 27
7. 3. Inside “Animal” and Outside “Culture”: The Limits to “Sameness” and Rhetorics of Salvation in von Hagens’s Animal Inside Out Body Worlds Exhibition 53
8. PART TWO. Mourning and the Unmourned
9. 4. On the Margins of Death: Pet Cemeteries and Mourning Practices 81
10. 5. Grievable Lives and New Kinships: Pet Cemeteries and the Changing Geographies of Death 101
11. 6. Animal Deaths and the Written Record of History: The Inflammatory Politics of Pet Obituaries in Newspapers 125
12. 7. Requiem for Roadkill: Death, Denial, and Mourning on America’s Roads 141
13. PART THREE. Animating Life: Cognition, Expressivity, and the Art Market
14. 8. “Art” by Animals, Part 1: The Transnational Market for Art by (Nonprimate) Animals 173
15. 9. “Art” by Animals, Part 2: When the Artist Is an Ape—Popular and Scientifi c Discourse and Paintings by Primates 200
16. 10. Conclusion: “Every Bird a ‘Blueboy’ ” and Why It Matters for “Animal Studies” 227
17. Notes 245
18. Index 321