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humanimalia-15999	Mattfeld, Monica	The Spanish Horse and the Thunder Drum: Taxidermied Subjects and Animal-Made-Objects in the Early Nineteenth Century	2025	41	.pdf	application/pdf	14344	673	60	Over the period, as Keith Thomas argues, older, and often minority, views on animal care and cruelty became of interest to more and more people; and it was also a period where animal life was important enough to preserve with legislation and protection societies.36 While the discourses themselves had not changed in great measure from their earlier iterations, by the end of the eighteenth century they were “much more widely dispersed, and they were much more ex- plicitly backed up by the religious and philosophical teachings of the time”.37 Gibraltar’s agency, in turn, in- vites us to question the usual binaries of live/dead, recognizable/ faceless, subject/object, and culture/nature which, as I will argue, some recent scholarship on animal lives and deaths, memory, and attitudes towards the nonhuman other (animal, thing, matter) con- tinues to perpetuate.	cache/humanimalia-15999.pdf	txt/humanimalia-15999.txt