List of Figures ............................................. XI
Preface .................................................... xin
Acknowledgments ............................................. XV
1 Perspectives on Human-Animal Communication: An
Introduction ................................................. 1
PART II Complicity
2 Animals as Media: Speaking through/with Nonhuman Beings ..... 17
TONY E. ADAMS
3 Beached Whales: Tracing the Rhetorical Force of
Extraordinary Material Articulations ........................ 35
DEBORAH COX CALLISTER
4 Framing Primate Testing: How Supporters and Opponents
Construct Meaning and Shape the Debate ...................... 54
JOSEPH ABISAID
5 Absorbent and Yellow and Porous Is He: Animated Animal
Bodies in SpongeBob Squarepants ............................. 77
SHANA HEINRICY
PART II Implication
6 Stepping Up to the Veggie Plate: Framing Veganism as
Living Your Values .......................................... 93
CARRIE PACKWOOD FREEMAN
7 The "Golden" Bond: Exploring Human-Canine Relationships
with a Retriever ........................................... 113
NICK TRUJILLO
8 Communicating Social Support to Grieving Clients: The
Veterinarians' View ........................................ 129
MARY PILGRAM
9 Flocking: Bird-Human Ritual Communication .................. 142
LEIGH A. BERNACCHI
10 Banging on the Divide: Cultural Reflection and Refraction
at the Zoo ................................................. 162
ТЕМА MILSTE1N
PART III Coherence
11 Listening with the Third Eye: A Phenomenological
Ethnography of Animal Communicators ........................ 185
SUSAN HAFEN
12 Thinking through Ravens: Human Hunters, Wolf-Birds and
Embodied Communication ..................................... 207
PAT MUNDAY
13 Un-Defining Man: The Case for Symbolic Animal
Communication .............................................. 226
STEPHEN J. LIND
14 Difference without Hierarchy: Narrative Paradigms and
Critical Animal Studies - A Meditation on Communication .... 245
SUSANNAH BUNNY LEBARON
Contributors ............................................... 265
Index ...................................................... 269
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