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Animal Metropolis brings a Canadian perspective to the growing
field of animal history, ranging across species and cities, from
the beavers who engineered Stanley Park to the carthorses who
shaped the city of Montreal. Some essays consider animals as
spectacle: orca captivity in Vancouver, polar bear tourism in
Churchill, Manitoba, fish on display in the Dominion Fisheries
Museum, and the racialized memory of Jumbo the elephant in St.
Thomas, Ontario. Others examine the bodily intimacies of shared
urban spaces: the regulation of rabid dogs in Banff, the maternal
politics of pure milk in Hamilton and the circulation of tetanus
bacilli from horse to human in Toronto. Another considers the
marginalization of women in Canada's animal welfare movement. The
authors collectively push forward from a historiography that
features nonhuman animals as objects within human-centered
inquiries to a historiography that considers the eclectic contacts,
exchanges, and cohabitation of human and nonhuman animals.
Understanding the relationships between humans and animals is
essential to a full understanding of both our present and our
shared past. Across the humanities and social sciences, researchers
have embraced the 'animal turn,' a multispecies approach to
scholarship, with historians at the forefront of new research in
human-animal studies that blends traditional research methods with
interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks that decenter humans in
historical narratives. These exciting approaches come with core
methodological challenges for scholars seeking to better understand
the past from non-anthropocentric perspectives.Whether in a large
public archive, a small private collection, or the oral histories
of living memories, stories of animals are mediated by the humans
who have inscribed the records and organized archival collections.
In oral histories, the place of animals in the past are further
refracted by the frailty of human memory and recollection. Only
traces remain for researchers to read and interpret. Bringing
together seventeen original essays by a leading group of
international scholars, Traces of the Animal Past showcases the
innovative methods historians use to unearth and explain how
animals fit into our collective histories. Situating the historian
within the narrative, bringing transparency to methodological
processes, and reflecting on the processes and procedures of
current research, this book presents new approaches and new
directions for a maturing field of historical inquiry.
Understanding the relationships between humans and animals is
essential to a full understanding of both our present and our
shared past. Across the humanities and social sciences, researchers
have embraced the 'animal turn,' a multispecies approach to
scholarship, with historians at the forefront of new research in
human-animal studies that blends traditional research methods with
interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks that decenter humans in
historical narratives. These exciting approaches come with core
methodological challenges for scholars seeking to better understand
the past from non-anthropocentric perspectives.Whether in a large
public archive, a small private collection, or the oral histories
of living memories, stories of animals are mediated by the humans
who have inscribed the records and organized archival collections.
In oral histories, the place of animals in the past are further
refracted by the frailty of human memory and recollection. Only
traces remain for researchers to read and interpret. Bringing
together seventeen original essays by a leading group of
international scholars, Traces of the Animal Past showcases the
innovative methods historians use to unearth and explain how
animals fit into our collective histories. Situating the historian
within the narrative, bringing transparency to methodological
processes, and reflecting on the processes and procedures of
current research, this book presents new approaches and new
directions for a maturing field of historical inquiry.
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