FORUM when sharks (don't) attack: Wild animal agency in historical narratives

Environmental History

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 451-455

  Martin, Jennifer Adams ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; SHARK; VULNERABILITY; WILD POPULATION;

CALIFORNIA; LA JOLLA; SAN DIEGO; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; CHONDRICHTHYES;

EID: 80955131358     PISSN: 10845453     EISSN: 19308892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/envhis/emr051     Document Type: Review

References (15)

1. This account is based on Conrad Limbaugh, "Shark Attack off La Jolla," Skin Diver Magazine 8 (August 1959): 30.
2. See the essays by Dawn Biehler and Jon Coleman on embodiment and violence, respectively.
3. Erica Fudge, "A Left-Handed Blow: Writing the History of Animals," in Representing Animals, ed. Nigel Rothfels (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002), 3-18;
4. Harriet Ritvo, "Animal Planet," Environmental History 9 (2004): 204-20.
5. Chris Wilbert, "What Is Doing the Killing? Animal Attacks, Man-Eaters, and Shifting Boundaries and Flows of Human-Animal Relations," in Killing Animals, ed. Animal Studies Group (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006), 30-49.
6. See Lissa Wadewitz's essay in this forum.
7. See the forum responses to Ted Steinberg's article, "Down to Earth: Nature, Agency, and Power in History," American Historical Review (June 2002), http://www. historycooperative.org/phorum/read.php?13,271,271#msg-271,
8. discussion in Lorraine Daston and Gregg Mitman, "The How and Why of Thinking with Animals," in Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism, eds. Lorraine Daston and Gregg Mitman (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005), 1-14; quotation, 3-4.
9. Linda Nash, "The Agency of Nature or the Nature of Agency?" Environmental History 10 (2005): 67-69; quotation, 68. (Pubitemid 40273613)
10. PerryW. Gilbert, "The AIBS Shark Research Panel," in Sharks and Survival, ed. Perry W. Gilbert (Boston: D. C. Heath, 1963), 505-507; quotation, 506.
11. Conrad Limbaugh, "Underwater Man and Sharks," 2, April 2, 1958, Box 19, Folder 3 American Institute of Biological Sciences, 1958-1965, Leonard Peter Schultz Papers, Smithsonian Institution Archives.
12. Perry W. Gilbert, Leonard P. Schultz, and Stewart Springer, "Shark Attacks During 1959," Science 132 (August 5, 1960): 323-26.
13. H. David Baldridge, Shark Attack: A Program of Data Reduction and Analysis (Sarasota: Mote Marine Laboratory, 1974), 5-6, 91.
14. Peter Matthiessen, Blue Meridian: The Search for the Great White Shark (New York: Random House, 1971; New York: Penguin, 1997), 5, 194-201.
15. Citations are to the 1971 edition. Also John Berger, "Why Look at Animals?" in About Looking (New York: Pantheon, 1980), 1-26.