"This welcome book tackles an important and neglected topic in an interesting and insightful manner. Full of empirical detail and written in an engaging style, Livestock/Deadstock is a valuable contribution to an emerging literature focusing on agricultural knowledge practices and the complexities and ambiguities of human-animal relationships in farming." 
-Lewis Holloway, University of Hull

Acknowledgments 
1. Food Animals: More Than a "Walking Larder"? 
2. Domestication to Industry: The Commercialization of Human-Livestock Relations 
3. Women and livestock: The Gendered Nature of Food-Animal Production 
4. "Price Discovery": Marketing and Valuing Livestock 
5. "The Good life": Hobby Farmers and Rare Breeds of Livestock 
6. Sentient Commodities: The Ambiguous Status of Livestock 
7. Affinities and Aloofness: The Pragmatic Nature of Producer-Livestock Relations 
8. Livestock/Deadstock: Managing the Transition from Life to Death 
9. Taking Stock: Food Animals, Ambiguous Relations, and Productive Contexts 
Notes 
Glossary of Doric Terms 
References 
Index