Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures

is an exciting new book series, co-

edited by historian Nigel Rothfels

and anthropologist Garry Marvin, and

published by the Pennsylvania State

University Press. Books in the series will

share a fascination not only with the

importance of animals in human life, but

also with how thinking about animals

can give us insights into human cultures,

in different temporal and geographical

contexts. Moreover, they will represent a

wide range of disciplinary perspectives

in the humanities and social sciences,

including history, anthropology, social

and cultural geography, environmental

studies, and literary and art criticsm.

Books in the series will be known for

original research and innovative analysis;

they will demonstrate an awareness of the

existing literature in animal studies; they

will eschew disciplinary-specific jargon

to serve a wide range of audiences; and

they will have a clear focus on learning

something new about human cultures.

Series Editors

Nigel Rothfels Director of Undergraduate Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Garry Marvin Professor of Human-Animal Studies Roehampton University

Advisory Board

Steve Baker Emeritus Professor of Art History University of Central Lancashire

Susan McHugh Associate Professor of English University of New England

Jules Pretty Professor of Environment and Society University of Essex

Alan Rauch Associate Professor of English University of North Carolina at Charlotte

For more information contact the Penn State University Press:

Kendra Boileau, Editor-in-Chief, klb60@psu.edu

or the series editors:

Nigel Rothfels, rothfels@uwm.edu

Garry Marvin, g.marvin@roehampton.ac.uk

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of animals and culturesANIMALIBUS

thebreathless zoo

tax i d erm y a n d

t h e cu ltures

o f long i ngRachel Poliquin

BEASTSGorgeous

animal bodies

in historical

perspective

edited by

Joan B. Landes,

Paula Young Lee, &

Paul Youngquist

The Breathless ZooTaxidermy and the Cultures of Longing

Rachel Poliquin

“With The Breathless Zoo, Rachel Poliquin has

made a major contribution to the blossom-

ing field of animal studies. This book is the

new benchmark on the place of taxidermy in

the social history of art, science, and popular

culture. Marvelous, rigorous, and extensively

well researched, the work is also refreshingly

pleasurable to read. . . . Unlike other works on

the topic, The Breathless Zoo examines not only

what taxidermy is but also what it means. For

those of us engaged in thinking about animals,

this is the book on the culture of taxidermy we

have long awaited—a book of great innova-

tion that slices through the history of science,

blood sports, and art.” —Mark Dion

272 pages | 31 color/5 b&w illustrations | 8 x 9 | 2012

ISBN 978-0-271-05372-1 | cloth: $34.95 tr

Gorgeous BeastsAnimal Bodies in Historical Perspective

Edited by Joan B. Landes, Paula Young Lee, and Paul Youngquist

“This innovative, accessible, and thorough col-

lection addresses an admirable range of histori-

cal and geographical contexts to demonstrate

that the human relationship with other species

is complex and overdetermined, and that hu-

man systems of knowledge and representation

are crucial for negotiating this uneven terrain.

An essential teaching text, Gorgeous Beasts will

find a welcome home in the HAS classrooms of

many disciplines.”

—Sherryl Vint, author of Bodies of Tomorrow:

Technology, Subjectivity, Science Fiction

258 pages | 12 color/38 b&w illustrations | 7 x 9 | 2012

ISBN 978-0-271-05401-8 | cloth: $49.95 sh