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Food Animals, Ambiguous
Relations, and Productive Contexts
Rhoda M. Wilkie
The connection between people and companion animals has
received considerable attention from scholars. In her original and provocative
ethnography Livestock/Deadstock, sociologist Rhoda Wilkie asks, how do
the men and women who work on farms, in livestock auction markets and
slaughterhouses, interact with—or disengage from—the animals they
encounter in their jobs? Wilkie provides a nuanced appreciation of how those
men and women who breed, rear, show, fatten, market, medically treat and
slaughter livestock, make sense of their interactions with the animals that
constitute the focus of their work lives. Livestock/Deadstock looks at
both people and animals in the division of labour and shows how commercial and
hobby productive contexts provide male and female handlers with varying
opportunities to bond with and/or distance themselves from livestock.
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