"Linda Kalof’s account allows neither denial nor escape, while nourishing the commitment to somehow recraft actual inter-species relationships into more livable patterns."

Professor Donna Haraway, professor of the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz, and author of Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness

"Linda Kalof’s Looking at Animals in Human History is a vivid and encyclopedic survey of encounters between human and nonhuman animals across Western culture.  Clear, readable, beautifully illustrated and always informative, this book presents (just as the title promises) a detailed account of how people have looked at animals, with insights into how animals figure in art, in battle, in entertainment, in law, in public health, in agriculture, in rituals, and much much more.  This is a valuable contribution to the growing field of human-animal studies."

Randy Malamud, Georgia State University, and author of Poetic Animals and Animal Souls

"Linda Kalof devastates the idea that animals do not matter, that they are irrelevant to human history. Her fascinating book should provoke much discussion."-–Jim Mason, co-author of The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter

 

Jim Mason

"In this fascinating review, Linda Kalof has brought a fresh approach to describing the multiplicity of ways in which humans have interacted with animals from the prey of ice age hunters to the virtual animals in today’s electronic world. With its scholarly text and splendid illustrations, this eminently readable book will appeal not only to all those with an interest in the animal world but also to students of social and art history." ––Juliet Clutton-Brock, author of A Natural History of Domesticated Mammals

Juliet Clutton-Brock

"To establish a more harmonious relationship to animals, we need to learn to pay greater attention, not only them but to one another as
well. But for that we need a context. Looking at Animals in Human History . . . is a fine place to start."

Boria Sax | H-NILAS