Human culture values some nonhumans but not others, while human culture as a whole is engaged with an incredibly diverse range of living beings.Animal studies is a growing interdisciplinary field that incorporates scholarship from public policy, sociology, religion, politics, philosophy, and many other fields. In essence, it seeks to understand how humans study and conceive of other-than-human animals, and how these conceptions have changedover time, across cultures, and among various scholarly modes of inquiry. This interdisciplinary introduction to the field boldly and creatively foregrounds the realities of nonhuman animals, as well as the imaginative and ethical faculties that humans must engage to consider our intersection withliving beings outside of our species.The field requires both learning and unlearning to develop forms of critical thinking that are scientifically informed and ethically sensitive. This book is a frank assessment of the ways human-centered approaches undermine the core values of the scientific tradition, robust education, and humancompassion. Further, it argues that the breadth and depth of thinking and the humility needed to grasp the human-nonhuman intersection has the potential to expand the dualism that currently divides the sciences and humanities.As the first holistic survey of the field, Animal Studies is essential reading for any student of human-animal relationships, and for all people who care about the role nonhuman animals play in our society.

Introduction ix

1. Opening Doors

2. TI1rough Open Doors: The Challenges of Hiscory, Cul cure, and Education 32

3. Science, Policies, and Ocher Animals 66

4. Early Twency-Firsc-Cencury Animal Studies: Three Cutting Edges 113

5 Animals in the Creative Arcs 127

6. Animals in Philosophy 143

7. Comparative Studies: Legal Systems, Religions, and Cultures 161

8. Animals and Modern Social Realities 194

9. The Special Roles of Anthropology, Archaeology, and Geography 221

10. Telling the Larger Scory 247

11. Marginalized Humans and Ocher Animals 260

12. The ~escion of Leadership: Geeting beyond Pioneers and Leaders co Individual C hoices 279

13. The Future of Animal Studies 289

Conclusion 307

Notes 309

Select Bibliography 333

Index 339

Paul Waldau is Associate Professor of Anthrozoology and Animal Behavior, Ecology and Conservation at Canisius College.

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