Leselisten er retningsgivende for den kunnskapen som studenten forventes å tilegne seg i løpet av studiet.
Teoretiske tilnærmingsmåter
Berger, John, i: About Looking, New York 1980. Pantheon. "Why Look at Animals?", s 1 - 27. 27 s.
Howe, James, i: American Ethnologist 8,2, 1981. "Fox hunting as ritual", s 278 - 300. 22 s.
Marvin, Garry, i: Society & Animals. Journal of Human-Animal Studies, 2001. "Cultured Killers: Creating and Representing Foxhounds", s 273 - 293. 20 s.
Rothfels, Nigel (ed.): Representing Animals. Theories of Contemporary Culture Vol 26, Bloomington 2002. Indiana University Press. 235 s.
Kulturelle perspektiver på naturhistorie og naturvitenskap
Jardine, N., J.A.Secord and E.C. Spray: Cultures of Natural History, Cambridge 1996. Cambridge University Press. Introduction s 3 - 17, III Dicipline, Discovery and Display, Epilogue, s 249 - 460. 225 s.
Rothfels, Nigel: Savages and Beasts. The Birth of The Modern Zoo, 2002. John Hopkins University Press. 268 s.
Natur som symbol
Ritvo, Harriet: The Animal Estate. The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age, Harvard 1987. Harvard University Press. 347 s.