Routledge
Horse Breeds and Human Society: Purity, Identity and the Making of the Modern Horse
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- Kristen Guest
- Routledge
- Paperback
- 9781032084428
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- Science > Earth Sciences - Geography
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
This book demonstrates how horse breeding is entwined with human societies and identities. It explores issues of lineage, purity, and status by exploring interconnections between animals and humans.
The quest for purity in equine breed reflects and evolves alongside human subjectivity shaped by categories of race, gender, class, region, and nation. Focusing on various horse breeds, from the Chincoteague Pony to Brazilian Crioulo and the Arabian horse, each chapter in this collection considers how human and animal identities are shaped by practices of breeding and categorizing domesticated animals.
Bringing together different historical, geographical, and disciplinary perspectives, this book will appeal to academics, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students, in the fields of human-animal studies, sociology, environmental studies, cultural studies, history, and literature.
Author Bio
Dr. Kristen Guest's research interests are in nineteenth century theatre and Victorian popular culture. "I have published on Victorian melodrama, cannibalism, and on popular authors such as Marie Corelli (the first Big bestseller in the modern sense of the term) and Isabella Beeton (the nineteenth-century Martha Stewart, minus the prison time).
I am currently at work on a SSHRCC funded project focusing on Victorian detective fiction that I hope to publish as a scholarly monograph. This project is exciting for me because it extends my interests popular culture and theatre. It will also include a chapter on depictions of policing and detection in western Canada in popular fiction about the North West Mounted Police. Since taking up residence in Prince George, my husband and I have also tried to explore northern BC as much as possible.
Source: University of Northern British Columbia
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