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OverviewWhy are some species admired or beloved while others are despised? In Trash Animals, a diverse group of environmental writers explores the natural history of wildlife species deemed filthy, unwanted, invasive, or worthless, highlighting the vexed relationship humans have with such creatures. Each essay focuses on a so-called trash species-gulls, carp, cockroaches, magpies, among others-examining the biology and behavior of each in contrast to the assumptions widely held about them. Identifying such animals as trash tells us nothing about problematic wildlife but rather reveals more about human expectations of, and frustrations with, the natural world. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kelsi Nagy , Phillip David Johnson IIPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.449kg ISBN: 9780816680559ISBN 10: 0816680558 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 01 April 2013 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsContents Foreword Randy Malamud Acknowledgments Introduction Kelsi Nagy and Phillip David Johnson II I. The Symbolic Trash Animal 1. See Gull: Cultural Blind Spots and the Disappearance of the Ring-billed Gull in Toronto Gavan P. L. Watson 2. Hunger Makes the Wolf Charles Bergman 3. Beauty and the Beast Catherine Puckett 4. Managing Apocalypse: A Cultural History of the Mormon Cricket Christina Robertson II. The Native Trash Animal 5. One Nation under Coyote, Divisible Lisa Couturier 6. Prairie Dog and Prejudice Kelsi Nagy 7. Nothing Says Trash like Packrats: Nature Boy Meets Bushy Tail Michael P. Branch III. The Invasive Trash Animal 8. Canadas: From Conservation Success to Flying Carp Bernard Quetchenbach 9. The Bard’s Bird; or, The Slings and Arrows of Avicultural Hegemony: A Tragicomedy in Five Acts Charles Mitchell 10. Fly-Fishing for Carp As a Deeper Aesthetics Phillip David Johnson II IV. The Urban Trash Animal 11. Metamorphosis in Detroit Carolyn Kraus 12. Kach’i: Garbage Birds in a Hybrid Landscape James E. Bishop 13. Flying Rats Andrew D. Blechman V. Moving beyond Trash 14. Kill the Cat That Kills the Bird? Bruce Barcott 15. An Unlimited Take of Ugly: The Bullhead Catfish Kyhl Lyndgaard 16. A Six-legged Guru: Fear and Loathing in Nature Jeffrey A. Lockwood 17. The Parables of the Rats and Mice Kathleen Dean Moore Publication History Contributors IndexReviewsAuthor InformationKelsi Nagy is a graduate student of anthrozoology at Canisius College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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