Contents

Introduction: Traces of the Animal Past

Jennifer Bonnell and Sean Kheraj

Part I: Embodied Histories

1 Kicking over the Traces? Freeing the Animal from the Archive

Sandra Swart

2 Occupational Hazards: Honeybee Labour as an Interpretive Device in Animal History

Jennifer Bonnell

3 Hearing History through Hoofbeats: Exploring Equine Volition and Voice in the Archive

Lindsay Stallones Marshall

Part II: Traces

4 Who is a Greyhound? Reflections on the Non-Human Digital Archive

Susan Nance

5 Accessing Animal Health Knowledge: Popular Educators and Veterinary Science in Rural Ontario

Jody Hodgins

6 Animal Cruelty, Metaphoric Narrative, and the Hudson’s Bay Company, 1919–1939

George Colpitts

Part III: The Unknowable Animal

7 Vanishing Flies and the Lady Entomologist

Catherine McNeur

8 Guinea Pig Agnotology

Joanna Dean

9 Tuffy’s Cold War: Science, Memory, and the US Navy’s Dolphin

Jason M. Colby

10 The Elephant in the Archive

Nigel Rothfels

Part IV: Spatial Sources and Animal Movement

11 Making Tracks: A Grizzly and Entangled History

Colleen Campbell and Tina Loo

12 Spatial Analysis and Digital Urban Animal History

Sean Kheraj

13 Visualizing the Animal City: Digital Experiments in Animal History

Andrew Robichaud

14 What’s a Guanaco? Tracing the Llama Diaspora through and beyond South America

Emily Wakild

Part V: Looking at Animals

15 Hidden in Plain Sight: How Art and Visual Culture Can Help Us Think about Animal Histories

J. Keri Cronin

16 Creatures on Display: Making an Animal Exhibit at the Archives of Ontario

Jay Young

17 Portraits of Extinction: Encountering Bluebuck Narratives in the Natural History Museum

Dolly Jørgensen

Epilogue: Combinations and Conjunction

Harriet Ritvo

Contributors

Index