How not to make a human : pets, feral children, worms, sky burial, oysters / Karl Steel.
Material type: TextPublisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]Description: 1 online resource (260 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 1452960011
- 9781452960029
- 145296002X
- 9781452960012
- 808.009/362 23
- PN682.A57 S73 2019
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"How Not to Make a Human seeks to provide a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of human particularity via a wide range of medieval texts. Exploring such diverse topics as medieval pet-keeping, stories of feral and isolated children, interest in the edibility of the human body, sky burials, Chaucer, and oysters, from a variety of disanthropic perspectives, Steel furnishes contemporary posthumanists with underutilized cultural models in which humans play a humbler part than they have tended to in the last several centuries"-- Provided by publisher.
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Pets -- Isolated and feral children -- Food for worms -- Food for birds -- Oysters.
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