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Book Synopsis
How humans think and feel about their work handling food animals

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"This welcome book tackles an important and neglected topic in an interesting and insightful manner. Full of empirical detail and written in an engaging style, Livestock/Deadstock is a valuable contribution to an emerging literature focusing on agricultural knowledge practices and the complexities and ambiguities of human-animal relationships in farming."
—Lewis Holloway, University of Hull



Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
1. Food Animals: More Than a "Walking Larder"?
2. Domestication to Industry: The Commercialization of Human—Livestock Relations
3. Women and livestock: The Gendered Nature of Food-Animal Production
4. "Price Discovery": Marketing and Valuing Livestock
5. "The Good life": Hobby Farmers and Rare Breeds of Livestock
6. Sentient Commodities: The Ambiguous Status of Livestock
7. Affinities and Aloofness: The Pragmatic Nature of Producer—Livestock Relations
8. Livestock/Deadstock: Managing the Transition from Life to Death
9. Taking Stock: Food Animals, Ambiguous Relations, and Productive Contexts
Notes
Glossary of Doric Terms
References
Index

Livestock/Deadstock: Working with Farm Animals from Birth to Slaughter

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      Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.
      Published 4 June 2010
      ISBN-13 9781592136483
      978-1592136483
      ISBN-10 1592136486
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      Rural communities / rural life Animal husbandry

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      How humans think and feel about their work handling food animals

      Trade Review

      "This welcome book tackles an important and neglected topic in an interesting and insightful manner. Full of empirical detail and written in an engaging style, Livestock/Deadstock is a valuable contribution to an emerging literature focusing on agricultural knowledge practices and the complexities and ambiguities of human-animal relationships in farming."
      —Lewis Holloway, University of Hull



      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments
      1. Food Animals: More Than a "Walking Larder"?
      2. Domestication to Industry: The Commercialization of Human—Livestock Relations
      3. Women and livestock: The Gendered Nature of Food-Animal Production
      4. "Price Discovery": Marketing and Valuing Livestock
      5. "The Good life": Hobby Farmers and Rare Breeds of Livestock
      6. Sentient Commodities: The Ambiguous Status of Livestock
      7. Affinities and Aloofness: The Pragmatic Nature of Producer—Livestock Relations
      8. Livestock/Deadstock: Managing the Transition from Life to Death
      9. Taking Stock: Food Animals, Ambiguous Relations, and Productive Contexts
      Notes
      Glossary of Doric Terms
      References
      Index

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