Semiotics of Animals in Culture

1. Introduction: Towards Zoosemiotics 2.0
Gianfranco Marrone

Part I. Animal as Food, Food for Animals

2. When to Eat Meat? Toward a Diet of Caring
Nicola Perullo

3. Anti-speciesist Rhetoric
Matteo Meschiari

4. Aesthetics of Nutrition, Ethics of Animality: The Packaging of Vegan and Vegetarian Products in the Italian Organised Distribution Market
Ilaria Ventura Bordenca

5. Forms of Animality: The Dog
Dario Mangano

6. Pet Food Communication: Notes on the Crisis of Naturalism
Roberta Bartoletti, Giulia Cecchelin

7. Cat Cafés and Dog Restaurants
Alice Giannitrapani

8. The Birth of a Pet? The Rabbit
Francesco Mazzucchelli

Part II. Animals in the Texts, Texts as Animals

9. Bestiality: Animal Cultures
Gianfranco Marrone

10. On the Logic of Animal Umwelten: The Animal Subjective Present and Zoosemiotics of Choice and Learning
Kalevi Kull

11. Of Men, Dogs and Bears: Communication in the Wilderness
Tarcisio Lancioni

12. The Mixed Category Human-Animal in New Anthropology and in the Arts
Tiziana Migliore

13. The “Morally Abandoned Child” and the“Inner Savage”
Pierluigi Cervelli

14. Frank and Johnny with Evie: Ontological Shifts in a J.R. Ackerley Novel
Francesco Mangiapane

15. The Human-Animal Relationship and the Musical Metaphor in The Great Animal Orchestra by Bernie Krause
Emiliano Battistini

Keywords: Life Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Semiotics, Philosophy of Science