Pig
In Pig, Brett Mizelle provides a richly illustrated and compelling look at the long, complicated relationship between humans and these highly intelligent, sociable animals. Mizelle traces the natural and cultural history of the pig, focusing on the contradictions between our imaginative representation of pigs and the real-world truth of the ways in which pigs are prized for their meat, used as subjects in medical research, and killed in order to make hundreds of consumer products.
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- Full title :Pig / Brett Mizelle.
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In Pig, Brett Mizelle provides a richly illustrated and compelling look at the long, complicated relationship between humans and these highly intelligent, sociable animals. Mizelle traces the natural and cultural history of the pig, focusing on the contradictions between our imaginative representation of pigs and the real-world truth of the ways in which pigs are prized for their meat, used as subjects in medical research, and killed in order to make hundreds of consumer products.
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- Publication Date:2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Reaktion books
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (224 pages) : : illustrations (chiefly color).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781861899903, 1861899904
- oclc:ocn787845166
- LC Classification:QL737.U58
- Dewey Decimal:599.633
Table of Contents
What is a pig? -- A shared history -- Hogs in the New World -- Meat -- Human-pig partnerships -- Good pigs and bad pigs -- Pigs of the imagination -- The return of the repressed : wild-living pigs.
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