Other animals
Subtitle: beyond the human in Russian culture and history
By: edited by Jane Costlow and Amy Nelson
Series: Pitt series in Russian and East European studies
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780822943884; 9780822960638
Subjects: Social life and customs; Human-animal relationships; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Integrating the animal / Jane Costlow and Amy Nelson; title: Woman's honor, or the story with a pig : the animal in everyday life in the eighteenth-century Russian provinces / Olga E. Glagoleva; title: Treating the "other animals" : Russian ethnoveterinary practices in the context of folk medicine / Mikhail Alekseevsky; title: That savage gaze : the contested portrayal of wolves in nineteenth-century Russia / Ian M. Helfant; title: "For the bear to come to your threshold" : human-bear encounters in late imperial Russian writing / Jane Costlow; title: The body of the beast : animal protection and anticruelty legislation in imperial Russia / Amy Nelson; title: Making reindeer Soviet : the appropriation of an animal on the Kola Peninsula / Andy Bruno; title: The animal Mayakovsky / Katherine Lahti; title: A legacy of kindness : V.L. Durov's revolutionary approach to animal training / Ann Kleimola; title: Of men and horses : animal imagery and the construction of Russian masculinities / Arja Rosenholm; title: Life of ferret and the "manimal" in post-Soviet literature / José Alaniz; title: The animal watches you : identity "after" history in Tatyana Tolstaya's The slynx / Daria Kabanova; title: The human dog Oleg Kulik : grotesque post-Soviet animalistic performances / Gesine Drews-Sylla.