Horse breeds and human society purity, identity and the making of the modern horse / edited by Kristen Guest and Monica Mattfeld.

Other author Guest, Kristen, 1967-
Other author Mattfeld, Monica, 1982-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAbingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
Descriptionpages cm.
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Contents Defining 'race' in the Spanish horse : the breeding program of King Philip II / Kathryn Renton -- Habsburg Lipizzaners, English thoroughbreds and the paradoxes of purity / Donna Landry -- Manufacturing the horse : understandings of inheritance in the long eighteenth century / Katrin Boniface -- 'How Northern was Pistol? The Galloway nag as self-identity and satire in an age of supra-national horse trading / Miriam Bibby -- 'Horse breeding is not a state affair!' State stallions, regulation and the Friesian horse / Jorieke Savelkouls -- Crioulos e crioulistas : southern Brazilian equestrian culture in a changing world / Miriam Adelman and Ana Camphora -- Bois y cobs : the place of autochthonous horses in rural Welsh cultural identity / Samantha Hurn -- Inventing the wild horse : the manmade history of the Takhi and Tarpan from 1828-2018 / Susanna Forrest -- Mustang, wild horse or breed? Reflections of American culture / Karen Dalke -- Wild at heart : the Chincoteague pony and the paradox of feral 'breed' / Kristen Guest -- The transition from type to breed : draft horses and purebred breeding in the international American market, 1870-1920 / Margaret Derry -- The ideal horse : politics and practices of Knabstrupper breeding / Irina Wenk -- The making and remaking of the Arabian horse - from the Arab Bedouin horse to the modern Straight Egyptian / Christophe Lange.
Abstract "This book demonstrates how horse breeding is entwined with human societies and identities. It explores issues of lineage, purity, status through interconnections between animals and humans. The quest for purity in horse breeding and the acceptance of what constitutes an identifiable horse breed reflect the ways in which human beings remain subject to racialized, gendered, regionalized, and classified categorizations. Since horses make for an apt species to explore these issues, their 'breeds' are viewed as a manifestation of human classist mindset. Focusing on various horse breeds, from the Chincoteague Pony to Brazilian Criolo and the Arabian horse, each chapter carries a leading expert's insights into the ways in which breeding continues to prevail in the worlds of domesticated animals. Bringing together different historical, geographical, and disciplinary perspectives, this book will appeal to academics, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of, human-animal studies, sociology, environmental studies, cultural studies, history and literature"-- Provided by publisher.
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LCCN 2019050061
ISBN9780367109400 (hardback)
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