dc.contributor.editor	Bonnell, Jennifer
dc.contributor.editor	Kheraj, Sean
dc.date.accessioned	2022-12-16T22:11:37Z
dc.date.available	2022-12-16T22:11:37Z
dc.date.copyright	2022-10-15
dc.date.issued	2022-10-15
dc.description.abstract	Understanding 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 perspectives. Whether in a large public archive, a small private collection, or the oral histories of living memories, stories of animals are mediated by the humans who have inscribed the records and organized archival collections. In oral histories, the place of animals in the past are further refracted by the frailty of human memory and recollection. Only traces remain for researchers to read and interpret. Bringing together seventeen original essays by a leading group of international scholars, Traces of the Animal Past showcases the innovative methods historians use to unearth and explain how animals fit into our collective histories. Situating the historian within the narrative, bringing transparency to methodological processes, and reflecting on the processes and procedures of current research, this book presents new approaches and new directions for a maturing field of historical inquiry.	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Bonnell,J., & Kheraj, S. (Eds.). (2022). Traces of the animal past: Methodological challenges in animal history. University of Calgary Press.	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9781773853857
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1880/115593
dc.identifier.uri	https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/40533
dc.language.iso	eng	en_US
dc.publisher	University of Calgary Press	en_US
dc.publisher.institution	York University	en_US
dc.publisher.url	http://press.ucalgary.ca/	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Canadian History and Environment #11	en_US
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dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0	en_US
dc.subject	Animal History	en_US
dc.subject	Animal Studies	en_US
dc.subject	Animals and Society	en_US
dc.subject	Social History	en_US
dc.subject	Methodology	en_US
dc.title	Traces of the Animal Past: Methodological Challenges in Animal History	en_US
dc.type	book	en_US

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