Margo De Mello

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Margo De Mello (* 1964 ) is an American anthropologist , university professor , author and program director for human-animal studies at the Institute for Animals and Society Intercultural Anthrozoology .

Life

Margo De Mello studied Religious Studies (BA) at the University of California, Berkeley in 1988 and Sociocultural Anthropology (MA) at the University of California, Davis in 1991 . There she received her Ph.D. PhD.

From 2004 to 2015 she was a lecturer at the Department of Communications, Humanities & Social Sciences, Central New Mexico Community College. She has been an Associate Professor at Canisius College since 2013 . She teaches in the anthrozoology program on the subjects of intercultural anthrozoology, animals as raw materials, animals and war, animals in popular culture and critical animal experiments.

Works (selection)

  • Mourning Animals: Rituals and Practices Surrounding Animal Death. (Ed.) Ann Arbor: Michigan State University 2016.
  • Body Studies: An Introduction. Routledge, London 2014, ISBN 0-415-6992-90 .
  • Inked: Tattoos and Body Art Around the World. ABC-CLIO, Westport 2014.
  • Speaking for Animals: Animal Autobiographical Writing. Routledge, New York 2012.
  • Animals and Society: An Introduction. Columbia University Press, New York 2012.
  • Faces around the World: A Cultural Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO, Westport 2012.
  • Teaching the Animal: Human Animal Studies Across the Disciplines. Lantern Press, New York 2010.
  • Feet and Footwear: A Cultural History. Greenwood Press 2009 Westport.
  • With Erin E. Williams: Why Animals Matter: The Case for Animal Protection. NY: Prometheus Books, Amherst 2007.
  • Encyclopedia of Body Adornment: A Cultural History. Greenwood Press Westport 2007.
  • With Susan E. Davis: Stories Rabbits Tell: A Natural and Cultural History of a Misunderstood Creature. Lantern Press, New York 2003.
  • Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community. Duke University Press, Durham 2000.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MARGO GAIL DE MELLO Curriculum Vitae on: cnm.academia.edu
personal data
SURNAME De Mello, Margo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1964