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Animal Biographies
Toward a History of Individuals
Historical narratives that put the lived experiences of animals first
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What would we learn if animals could tell their own stories?
Éric Baratay, a pioneering researcher in animal histories in France, applies his knowledge of historical methodologies to give voice to some of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries’ most interesting animals.
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He offers brief yet innovative accounts of these animals’ lives in a way that challenges the reader’s thinking about animals.
Baratay illustrates the need to develop a nonanthropocentric means of viewing the lives of animals and including animals themselves in the narrative of their lives.
Animal Biographies launches an all-new investigation into the lives of animals and is a major contribution to the field of animal studies.
This English translation of Éric Baratay’s Biographies animales: Des Vies retrouvées, originally published in France i