Animal Studies Bibliography
Linda Kalof, Seven Mattes, Amy Fitzgerald
Animal Studies Program, Michigan State University
Domestication and Predation
This category is comprised of references that deal with hunting and the domestication of animals, including discussions of animal economies such as the commodification of animals for their end products to feed and clothe humans.
This bibliography is an ongoing project of the Animal Studies Program at Michigan State University. We welcome additions and corrections to this bibliography by email: LKalof@msu.edu
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Adair, Holiday E. 1995. The correlation between hunting and crime: A comment. Society and Animals 3(2): 189-195.
Anderson, J. K. 1985. Hunting in the Ancient World. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Anderson, Kay. 1998. Animal domestication in geographic perspective. Society and Animals 6(2): 119-135.
Anderson , Virginia DeJohn. 2004. Creatures of Empire: How domestic animals transformed early America. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.
Archer, John E. 1985. ‘A fiendish outrage?' A study of animal maiming in East Anglia : 1830-1870. Agricultural History Review 33(Part II): 147-157.
Baker, R. 1985. The American Hunting Myth. New York: Vantage Press.
Bauston, Gene. 1996. Battered Birds, Crated Herds: How We Treat the Animals We Eat. Watkins Glen, NY: Farm Sanctuary.
Bekoff, Marc and Dale Jamieson. 1991. Sport hunting as an instinct. Environmental Ethics. 13(4): 375-378.
Bekoff, M. and R.W. Ickes. 1999. Behavioral interactions and conflict among domestic dogs, black-tailed prairie dogs, and people in Boulder, Colorado. Anthrozoös 12(2): 105-110.
Boivin, X., P. LeNeindre and J.M. Chupin. 1992. Establishment of cattle-human relationships. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 32(4): 325-335.
Budiansky, S. 1992. The Covenant of the Wild: Why Animals Chose Domestication. New York: Morrow.
Bulliet, Richard W. 2005. Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers: The Past and Future of Human-Animal Relationships. Columbia University Press.
Caras, Roger A. 1996. A Perfect Harmony: The Intertwining Lives of Animals and Humans Throughout History. New York: Simon and Schuster.
Carlson, Laurie. 2001. Cattle: An Informal Social History. Chicago, IL: Ivan R. Dee.
Cartmill, Matt. 1993. A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature Through History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. SUMMARY
Cartmill, Matt. 1995. Hunting and humanity in western thought. Social Research 62(3): 773- 786. SUMMARY
Cassidy, Rebecca and Molly Mullin (eds.). 2007. Where the Wild Things are Now: Domestication Reconsidered. Oxford , UK : Berg.
Clifton , M. 1990. Killing the female: The psychology of the hunt. The Animals' Agenda (September), 26-57.
Clothier, Suzanne. Bones would Rain from the Sky: Deepening our Relationships with Dogs. New York: Warner Books.
Clutton-Brock, Juliet. 1981. Domesticated Animals from Early Times. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
Clutton-Brock, Juliet. 1994. The unnatural world: Behavioural aspects of humans and animals in the process of domestication. In Aubrey Manning and James Serpell (eds.), Animals and Human Society: Changing Perspectives. London: Routledge, 23-35.
Clutton-Brock, Juliet. 1999. A Natural History of Domesticated Mammals. 2nd edition. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
Coats, C. David. 1989. Old MacDonald's Factory Farm: The Myth of the Traditional Farm and the Shocking Truth About Animal Suffering in Today's Agribusiness. New York: Continuum.
Coe, Sue. 1995. Dead Meat. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows.
Comninou, Maria. 1995. Speech, Pornography, and Hunting. In Carol J. Adams and Josephine Donovan (eds.). Animals and Women: Feminist Theoretical Explorations. Durham: Duke University Press.
Coren, Stanley. 2002. The Pawprints of History: Dogs and the Course of Human Events. New York: Free Press.
Dahles, Heidi. 1993. Game killing and killing games: An anthropologist looking at hunting in a modern society. Society and Animals 1(2): 169-189.
Davis, Karen. 1988. Farm animals and the feminine connection. The Animal's Agenda 8(1): 38-39. SUMMARY
Davis, Karen. 1996. Prisoned Chickens and Poisoned Eggs: An Inside Look at the Modern Poultry Industry. Summertown, TN: The Book Publishing Co.
Dealler, Stephen. 1996. Lethal Legacy: BSE – The Search for the Truth. London: Bloomsbury .
Dizard, Jan. 1994. Going Wild: Hunting, Animal Rights, and the Contested Meaning of Nature. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.
Dommer, L.A. 1989. A hunter's delusions: Saving the deer from starvation. Animals' Voice April: 82-84.
Dransart, Penelope 1991 Llamas, herders and the exploitation of raw materials in the Atacama Desert. World Archaeology22(3), 304-319. Full Article
Dransart, Penelope Z. 2002. Earth, Water, Fleece and Fabric: An Ethnography and Archaeology of Andean Camelid Herding. London: Routledge.
Dransart, Penelope 2011 Social principles of camelid pastoralism and archaeological interpretations. InEthnzoooarchaeology: The Present and Past of Human-animal Relationships Umberto Albarella and Angela Trentacoste, eds, 123-130.Oxford: Oxbow.
Drews, Carlos. 2001. Wild animals and other ‘pets' kept in Costa Rican households: Incidence, species, and numbers. Society and Animals 9(2): 107-126.
Drews, Carlos. 2002. Attitudes, knowledge and wild animals as pets in Costa Rica. Anthrozoös 15(2): 119-138.
Durrenberger, Paul. 1998. Pigs, Profits, and Rural Communities (SUNY Series in Anthropological Studies of Contemporary Issues). State University of New York Press.
Eisnitz, Gail. 1997. Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
Eliason, S.L. 2003. Illegal hunting and angling: The neutralization of wildlife law violations. Society and Animals 11 (3): 225-243.
Feral, Priscilla and Sandra Lewis. 1991. In search of a level playing field: Animal rights and the fur industry. National Trial Lawyer 3(3): 15-16, 81.
Ferguson , Denzel and Nancy Ferguson. 1983. Sacred Cows at the Public Trough. Bend, OR: Maverick Publications.
Fiddes, Nick. 1991. Meat: A Natural Symbol. New York: Routledge.
Fitzgerald, Amy J. 2005. The Emergence of the Figure of ‘Woman the Hunter': Equality or Complicity in Oppression? Women's Studies Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 1/2, Women and Sports (Spring - Summer, 2005), pp. 86-104.
Floyd, H. Hugh, William B. Bankston and Richard A. Burgesion. 1986. An examination of the effects of young adults' social experience on their attitudes toward hunting and hunters. Journal of Sport Behavior 9: 116-130. SUMMARY
Flynn, Clifton P. 2002. Hunting and illegal violence against humans and other animals: Exploring the relationship. Society and Animals 10(2): 137-154.
Fox, M.W. 1981. Farm animal welfare: Some opinions. International Journal for the Study of Animal Problems 2(2): 80-86. SUMMARY
Fox, M.W. 1983. Farm Animals: Husbandry, Behavior, and Veterinary Practice – Viewpoints of a Critic. Baltimore, MD: University Park Press.
Fox, M.W. 1986. Agricide: The Hidden Crisis that Affects Us All. New York: Shocken Books.
Fox, M.W. 1986. Laboratory Animal Husbandry: Ethology, Welfare, and Experimental Variable. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Fox, M.W. 1992. Superpigs and Wondercorn: The Brave New World of Biotechnology and How It May Affect Us All. New York: Lyons and Burford.
Fox, M.W. and L.D. Mickley (eds.). 1985/86 Advances in Animal Welfare Science. Washington, DC: Human Society of the United States .
Frank, J. 1979. Factory farming: An imminent clash between animal rights activists and agribusiness. Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review 7(3): 423-561.
Frank, Joshua M. 2002. The actual and potential contribution of economics to animal welfare issues. Society and Animals 10(4): 421-428.
Franklin, Adrian . 1996. Australian hunting and angling sports and the changing nature of human-animal relations in Australia. The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology 32(3): 39-56.
Franklin, Adrian . 1998. Naturalizing sports: Hunting and angling in modern environments. International Review for the Sociology of Sport 33(4): 355-366.
Franklin, Sarah. 2007. Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy. Durham: Duke University Press.
Gish, Robert Franklin. 1992. Songs of my Hunter Heart: A Western Kinship. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press.
Glenn, Cathy B. 2004. Constructing consumables and consent: A critical analysis of factory farm industry discourse. Journal of Communication Inquiry 28, 1.
Grandin, T. 1988. Behavior of slaughter plant and auction employees toward animals. Anthrozoös 1: 205-213.
Gunn, Alastair S. 2001. Environmental ethics and trophy hunting. Ethics and the Environment 6(1): 68-95. SUMMARY
Harbolt, Tami. 2003. Bridging the Bond: The Cultural Construction of the Shelter Pet. Purdue University Press.
Harris, Marvin. 1966. The cultural ecology of India 's sacred cattle. Current Anthropology 7: 51-66.
Harris, Marvin. 1987. The Sacred Cow and the Abominable Pig: Riddles of Food and Culture. New York: Touchstone Books.
Hawkins, Ronnie Zoe. 2001. Cultural whaling, commodification, and culture change. Environmental Ethics 23: 287-306.
Hearne, Vicki. 1995. A taxonomy of knowing animals: Captive, free-ranging, and at liberty. Social Research 62(3): 441-456.
Hendricksen, R. 1983. More Cunning than Man: A Social History of Rats and Men. New York: Stein and Day.
Herda-Rapp, Ann and Theresa L. Goedeke (eds.) 2005. Mad About Wildlife: Looking At Social Conflict Over Wildlife (Human-Animal Studies). Brill Academic Publishers.
Herzog Jr., H.A. and S. McGee. 1983. Psychological aspects of slaughter: Reactions of college students to killing and butchering cattle and hogs. International Journal for the Study of Animal Problems 4: 124-132. SUMMARY
Holloway, Lewis. 2003. ‘What a Thing, then, is this Cow…': Positioning domestic livestock animals in the texts and practices of small-scale ‘self-sufficiency'. Society and Animals 11(2): 145-165.
Houston, Pam (ed.). 1995. Women on Hunting. Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press.
Johnson, Andrew. 1991. Factory Farming. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwood.
Jolma, Dena. 1992. Why they quit: Thoughts from ex-hunters. Animals' Agenda. July/August: 39.
Jones, R.B., N. Carmichael and C. Williams. 1998. Social housing and domestic chicks' responses to symbolic video images. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 56(1): 231-243.
Kalof, Linda and Amy Fitzgerald. 2003. Reading the trophy: Exploring the display of dead animals in hunting magazines. Visual Studies 18(2): 111-121.
Kalof, Linda, Amy Fitzgerald, and Lori Baralt. 2004. Animals, women, and weapons: Blurred sexual boundaries in the discourse of sport hunting. Society and Animals 12 (3): 237-251.
Kerasote, Ted. 1993. Bloodties: Nature, Culture, and the Hunt. New York: Kodansha.
Klein, R.G. 1987. Reconstructing how early people exploited animals: Problems and prospects. In M.H. Nitecki and D.V. Nitecki (eds.). The Evolution of Human Hunting. 11-45. New York: Plenum.
Koler-Matznick, J. 2002. The origin of the dog revisited. Anthrozoös 15(2): 98-118.
Lee, R.B. and I. DeVore (eds.). 1968. Man the Hunter. Chicago, IL: Aldine.
Leeds , A. and Andrew P. Vayda (eds.). 1965. Man, Culture, and Animals. Washington, DC: The American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Lobban, R.A. 2000. Pigs, profits, and rural communities. Anthrozoös 13(1): 56-57.
Lobban, R.A. and V. de Liedekerke. 2000. Elephants in ancient Egypt and Nubia. Anthrozoös 13(4): 232-244.
Loftin, Robert. 1984. The morality of hunting. Environmental Ethics. 6.
Luke, Brian. 1998. Violent love: Hunting, heterosexuality, and the erotics of men's predation. Feminist Studies 24(3): 627-655.
Luke, Brian. 1997. A Critical Analysis of Hunters' Ethics. Environmental Ethics v. 19, Spring. SUMMARY
Luke, Brian. 1995. Taming ourselves or going feral? Toward a nonpatriarchal metaethic of animal liberation. In Carol J. Adams and Josephine Donovan (eds.). Animals and Women: Feminist Theoretical Explorations. Durham: Duke University Press, 290-319.
Lundberg, Stefan and Ingvar Svanberg. 2010. The stone loach in Stockholm, Sweden and royal fish-ponds in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Archives for Natural History 37: 150–160.
Lyman, Howard F. 1999. Introduction: Free speech, animal law, and food activism. Animal Law 5: i-vi.
Lyman, Howard F. and Glen Merzer. 2001. Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat. Scribner.
MacKenzie, J.M. 1988. The Empire of Nature: Hunting, Conservation and British Imperialism. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Malcolmson, Robert W. and Stephanos Mastoris. 1998. The English Pig: A History. Rio Grande: Hambledon Press.
Manning, Roger B. 1992. Poaching as a symbolic substitute for war in Tudor and Early Stuart England. Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 22(2): 185-210.
Marks, S.A. 1991. Southern Hunting in Black and White: Nature, History, and Ritual in a Carolina Community. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Marschark, E.D. and R. Baenninger. 2002. Modification of instinctive herding dog behavior using reinforcement and punishment. Anthrozoös 15(1): 51-68.
Marvin, Gary . 2001. Cultured killers: Creating and representing foxhounds. Society and Animals 9(3): 273-292.
Mason, Jim and Peter Singer. 1980. Animal Factories. New York: Crown Publishers.
McIntyre, T. 1988. The Way of the Hunter: The Art and the Spirit of Modern Hunting. New York: Dutton.
Mench, J.A. and M.D. Kreger. 1996. Ethical and welfare issues associated with keeping wild mammals in captivity. In D. Kleiman, M. Allen, K. Thompson, S. Lumpkin, and H. Harris (eds.). Wild Mammals in Captivity. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 5-15.
Merriman, Kristin. 1989. Hunter harassment: A war in the woods. Outdoor America 54(1): 20-22.
Milbourne, Paul. 2003. The complexities of hunting in rural England and Wales. Sociologia Ruralis 43(3): 289-308.
Miles, William F.S. 1997. Pigs, politics and social change in Vanuatu. Society and Animals 5 (2): 155-167.
Mithen, S. 1999. The hunter-gatherer prehistory of human animal interactions. Anthrozoös 12(4): 195-204.
Moreby, C. 1982. What whaling means to the Japanese. New Scientist 31: 661-663.
Munro, Lyle. 1997. Framing cruelty: The construction of duck shooting as a social problem. Society and Animals 5(2): 95-116.
Nadeau, Chantel. 2001. Fur Nation: From Beaver to Brigitte Bardot. New York: Routledge
Natoli, E., M. Ferrari, E. Bolletti, et al. 1999. Relationships between cat lovers and feral cats in Rome. Anthrozoös 12(1): 16-23.
Neil, D.T. 2002. Cooperative fishing interactions between Aboriginal Australians and dolphins in eastern Australia. Anthrozoös 15(1): 3-18.
Nelson, Barney. 2000. The Wild and the Domestic: Animal Representation, Ecocriticism, and Western American Literature. Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press.
Ojoade, J. Olowo . 1994. Nigerian cultural attitudes to the dog. In Roy Willis (ed.). Signifying Animals: Human Meaning in the Natural World.NY: Routledge, 215-221.
Palmer, C. Eddie and Craig J. Forsyth. 1992. Animals, attitudes and anthropomorphic sentiment: The social construction of meat and fur in postindustrial society. International Review of Modern Sociology 22: 29-44. SUMMARY
Pluhar, Evelyn. 1991. The joy of killing. Between the Species. 7.
Posewitz, Jim. 1994. Beyond Fair Chase: The Ethic and Tradition of Hunting. Helena, MT: Falcon Press.
Quinn, Michael S. 1993. Corpulent cattle and milk machines: Nature, art and the ideal type. Society and Animals 1(2).
Reisner, Ann. 1992. An activist press: The farm press's coverage of the animal rights movement. Agriculture and Human Values 9(2): 38-53.
Richardson, Glenn M. and Joseph B.R. Whitney. 1995. Goats and garbage in Khartoum , Sudan : A study of the urban ecology of animal keeping. Human Ecology 23(4): 455-475.
Rifkin, Jeremy. 1992. Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture. New York: Dutton.
Rodrique, Christine M. 1992. Can religion account for early animal domestication? A critical assessment of the cultural geographic argument, based on Near Eastern archaeological data. The Professional Geographer 44(4): 417-430.
Rollin, Bernard. 1990. Animal welfare, animal rights and agriculture. Journal of Animal Sciences 68: 3456-3461.
Rollin, Bernard. 1994. Animal production and the new social ethic for animals. Journal of Social Philosophy 25: 71-83.
Rollin, Bernard E. 1995. Farm Animal Welfare: School, Bioethical, and Research Issues. Iowa State Press.
Russel, Nerissa. 2002. The wild side of animal domestication. Society and Animals 10(3): 285-302.
Serpell, J.A. (ed.) 1994. The Domestic Dog: Its Evolution, Behavior, and Interactions with People. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Sheard, Kenneth. 1999. A twitch in time saves nine: Birdwatching, sport, and civilizing processes. Sociology of Sport Journal 16(3): 181-205.
Sinclair, Upton. 2003/1905. The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition. See Sharp Press.
Skaggs, Jimmy M. 1986. Prime Cut: Livestock Raising and Meatpacking in the United States, 1607-1983. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press.
Smith, Mick. 2002. The “ethical” space of the abattoir: On the (in)human(e) slaughter of other animals. Human Ecology Review 9(2):49-58. SUMMARY
Smith, S. and M. Jepson. 1993. Big fish, little fish: Politics and power in the regulation of Florida 's marine resources. Social Problems 40: 39-49.
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Ståhlberg, Sabira and Ingvar Svanberg. 2010. Loplyk fishermen: Ecological adaptation in the Taklamakan Desert. Anthropos 105, No. 2 (Autumn): 423–439. SUMMARY
Ståhlberg, Sabira and Ingvar Svanberg. 2010. Gathering food from
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Stange, Mary Zeiss. 1997. Woman the Hunter. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
Starkey, Paul, Sirak Teklu and Michael R. Goe. 1991. Animal Traction: An Annotated Bibliographic Database. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: International Livestock Centre for Africa.
Stibbe, A. 2003. As charming as a pig: The discursive construction of the relationship between pigs and humans. Society and Animals 11 (4): 375-392.
Strychacz, Thomas. 1993. Trophy-hunting as a trope of manhood in Ernest Hemingway's Green Hills of Africa. The Hemingway Review 13(1): 36-47.
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