Baltic Human-Animal Histories

This edited volume offers the first overview on human-animal history in the Baltics. Investigating historical entanglements between human and non-human animals from the pre-Christian times to the Soviet period and discussing a wide range of species, the volume integrates transnational study of Baltic history and culture with interdisciplinary human-animal studies. Taking the interrelatedness of species as a premise, the contributions focus on a variety of contacts and their representations in written, material, visual and other sources of Baltic history.?Covering a time period of nearly one thousand years, the chapters also make it possible to trace continuity and change in Baltic human-animal history over extended periods.

Linda Kaljundi is Professor of cultural history at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Anu Mänd is Professor of art history at the University of Tartu. Ulrike Plath is Professor of Baltic German studies and environmental history at Tallinn University. Kadri Tüür is a researcher at Tallinn University.