- Title
- Living by voices we shall never hear: seeing animals differently
- Creator
- Mitchell, Pauline
- Creator
- Mitchell, Les
- Date
- 2011
- Type
- Monograph
- Identifier
- vital:12230
- Description
- We live in the midst of animals; the products of their bodies and products made from their bodies are everywhere. Over thousands of years we have used these beings for our own ends; for hauling loads, grinding grain, making roads, carrying people, working in mines, powering machinery, ploughing land and making war. Each day of the year we kill, on average, in the food industry alone, the same number of animals as there are people in the whole of southern Africa. Animals have been our unpaid, unacknowledged and, for the most part, appallingly treated slaves, on whose backs, it is no exaggeration to say, our present world has been built. Perhaps it is time to consider our relationship with them. For this book we originally asked Quakers and people attending Quaker Meetings to write about ‘seeing animals differently’ and our contributors are Friends or attenders or people who have some association with Friends. The authors live in the UK, South Africa, Zimbabwe, New Zealand, Australia and the United States. There is a saying that trying to organise Quakers is like trying to herd cats and the diversity in this small book clearly bears this out. We An introduction to the book Pauline and Les Mitchell Introduction have not made any attempt to impose uniformity or to ask authors to write to any formula, which means that what you read carries the original voice and style of the contributor. We feel that, rather than a weakness, this is a strength of the collection and shows how diverse yet interwoven our perspectives can be.
- Format
- 155 leaves; 30cm
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Pauline Mitchell
- Publisher
- Les Mitchell
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Pauline Mitchell and Les Mitchell
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
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