Traces of the Animal Past - 9781773853840

Traces of the Animal PastMethodological Challenges in Animal History\nAuthor(s): Jennifer Bonnell, Sean Kheraj\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Calgary Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Calgary Press\nISBN-13: 9781773853840, 978-1773853840\nSynopsis\nUnderstanding the relationships between humans and animals is essential to a full understanding of both our present and our shared past. Across the humanities and social sciences, researchers have embraced the 'animal turn,' a multispecies approach to scholarship, with historians at the forefront of new research in human-animal studies that blends traditional research methods with interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks that decenter humans in historical narratives. These exciting approaches come with core methodological challenges for scholars seeking to better understand the past from non-anthropocentric [url] in a large public archive, a small private collection, or the oral histories of living memories, stories of an.