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When Species Meet

When Species Meet © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 DOI: 10.1163/156853008X357685 Society and Animals 16 (2008) 373-382 www.brill.nl/soan Review Section On a Mutual Becoming When Species Meet , by Donna Haraway . University of Minnesota Press, 2008. ISBN-10: 0816650454 A new book from Donna Haraway is always an event to savor whether one is intrigued and sometimes intimidated by her impressive scholarship and ease around contemporary bio- science or irritated by her increasingly folksy turn of phrase and use of personal anecdotes. Haraway certainly likes to mix it up, but, however presented, her ideas are never less than provocative. Her latest book will, I suspect, meet with a very mixed response. One can only assume that is precisely what she would most like. When Species Meet relies mostly on an amalgam and development of previously published work. Some readers may be less than impressed that two chapters have already appeared in earlier versions in Th e Companion Species Manifesto (2003), her preceding book dealing with the human-nonhuman animal relationship—specifi cally with dogs. Opening an Encounter Where the new text goes further is in opening up the encounter not only to domestic ani- mals in and around the home but also to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Society & Animals Brill

When Species Meet

Society & Animals , Volume 16 (4): 373 – Jan 1, 2008

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 2008 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1063-1119
eISSN
1568-5306
DOI
10.1163/156853008X357685
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 DOI: 10.1163/156853008X357685 Society and Animals 16 (2008) 373-382 www.brill.nl/soan Review Section On a Mutual Becoming When Species Meet , by Donna Haraway . University of Minnesota Press, 2008. ISBN-10: 0816650454 A new book from Donna Haraway is always an event to savor whether one is intrigued and sometimes intimidated by her impressive scholarship and ease around contemporary bio- science or irritated by her increasingly folksy turn of phrase and use of personal anecdotes. Haraway certainly likes to mix it up, but, however presented, her ideas are never less than provocative. Her latest book will, I suspect, meet with a very mixed response. One can only assume that is precisely what she would most like. When Species Meet relies mostly on an amalgam and development of previously published work. Some readers may be less than impressed that two chapters have already appeared in earlier versions in Th e Companion Species Manifesto (2003), her preceding book dealing with the human-nonhuman animal relationship—specifi cally with dogs. Opening an Encounter Where the new text goes further is in opening up the encounter not only to domestic ani- mals in and around the home but also to

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Published: Jan 1, 2008

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