Livestock/deadstock working with farm animals from birth to slaughter / [electronic resource] :
Rhoda M. Wilkie.
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2010.
- xi, 234 p. : Tables ; 23 cm.
- ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Food Animals: More Than a “Walking Larder”? -- Domestication to Industry: The Commercialization of Human-Livestock Relations -- Women and Livestock: The Gendered Nature of Food-Animal Production -- “Price Discovery”: Marketing and Valuing Livestock -- “The Good Life”: Hobby Farmers and Rare Breeds of Livestock -- Sentient Commodities: The Ambiguous Status of Livestock -- Affinities and Aloofness: The Pragmatic Nature of Producer-Livestock Relations -- Livestock/Deadstock: Managing the Transition from Life to Death -- Taking Stock: Food Animals, Ambiguous Relations, and Productive Contexts.