Milk, modernity and the making of the human
Subtitle: purifying the social
By: edited by Richie Nimmo.
Contributors: Nimmo, Richie.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780415558747; 9780203867334
Subjects: Milk trade -- Social aspects -- Great Britain; Dairying -- Social aspects -- Great Britain; Human-animal relationships; Humanism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: modernity, humanity and nonhumans; title: The anthropocentrism of culture: a critique of humanist discourse; title: Milk and modernity part I: commodities, networks and monopolies; title: Culture, order and disease in late nineteenth century British dairying; title: Purifying milk: knowledge, sanitation and discipline; title: Milk and modernity part II: measurement, rationalization and control; title: Beyond culture and nature: towards a post-humanist knowledge.