History and Animal Studies

Abstract

Nonhuman animals other than human can hardly be characterized as novel historical subjects. Their remains have provided valuable evidence for historians of cultures that left little or no written trace. They traditionally have attracted the attention of economic historians, especially those who study times and places heavily dependent on agriculture. In more recent times, important animal-related institutions, from humane societies to zoos, have had their chroniclers. People distinguished in their association with animals, from breeders to hunters to scientists, have had their biographers as, indeed, have some animals distinguished in their own right, such as Jumbo, Greyfriars Bobby, or Seabiscuit. Speci c animal-related issues or practices have received focused attention, and historians working in specialized areas continue to make use of such excellent studies as Richard D. French's Antivivisection and medical science in Victorian society (1975). Even some much earlier work continues to be useful. Even some much earlier work continues to be useful. For example, E.

Introduction: Centring Animals Within Medical History

“…13 Enhanced concern for animals and human-animal relations in the present has helped to draw attention to their pasts within different domains of historical scholarship. Situating animals within nature as constituents 9 Ritvo (2002), , Kean (2012), Sivasundaram (2015). 10 Fudge (2006).…”

“…12 Ritvo (2002), Shaw (2013aShaw ( , 2013b, Vandersommers (2016). 13 For example: Bekoff (2002), Grandin and Johnson (2005).…”

“…See also Swart (2007) p. 276, Eitler (2014 p. 262. 17 Ritvo (2002), Kean (2012). For a history of animals as workers, see Hribal (2007).…”

Entre o real e o representado: um debate na história dos animais

“…Mas, concordando com o paradigma da área, essa história seria narrada por humanos. Para Ritvo (2002), analisar os animais na história não é novidade, porém nas últimas décadas do século XX a atitude dos historiadores teria mudado. As relações humano-animais têm atraído maior atenção desde então devido ao crescimento de movimentos de proteção animal.…”

“…Os paradigmas da área estão informados pelos debates do próprio campo historiográfico, mas também pelos animal studies (KRUSE, 2002;MULLIN, 2002;RITVO, 2002), área multidisciplinar que teria emergido na década de 1970de (BIRKE, 2002, em meio a movimentos de proteção animal que, não obstante, remontam ao século XIX (RITVO, 2002).…”