Foreword -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- List of contributors -- PREFACE -- Lynda Birke -- INTRODUCTION -- Nik Taylor -- PART ONE -- KNOTTY PROBLEMS: TO THEORISE OR NOT? -- CHAPTER ONE -- Mapping Human Animal Relations -- Peter Beatson -- Chapter Two -- Theorizing 'Others' -- Lisa Kemmerer -- PART TWO -- The Underdog in History: Serfdom, Slavery and Species in the Creation and Development of Capitalism -- Mary Murray -- Chapter Four -- Dangerous Dogs And The Construction Of Risk -- Claire Molloy -- Chapter Five -- Ritual, Reason And Animals -- Gavin Kendall -- PART THREE -- Animal Performers -- Chapter Six -- Gregory S. Szarycz -- Chapter SeveN -- The Gaze of Animals -- Philip Armstrong -- PART FOUR -- Forward thinking -- Chapter EIGHT -- Can Sociology Contribute To The Emancipation Of Animals? -- Nik Taylor -- CHAPTER NINE -- Theorising Rider-Horse Relations: An Ethnographic Illustration of the Centaur Metaphor in the Spanish Bullfight -- Kirrilly Thompson -- CHAPTER TEN -- Ciliated Sense -- Eva Hayward -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- From Theory to Action: An Ethologist's Perspective -- Jonathan Balcombe -- Index.