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Thinking with animals : new perspectives on anthropomorphism

Author: Lorraine Daston; Gregg Mitman
Publisher: Chichester : Columbia University Press, 2007.
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Explores the how and why of anthropomorphism. This book investigates the changing patterns of anthropomorphism across different time periods and settings, as well as their effects upon animals,  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Lorraine Daston; Gregg Mitman
ISBN: 0231130392 9780231130394
OCLC Number: 796044926
Notes: Originally published: 2005.
Description: vi, 230 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents: Preface Introduction. The How and Why of Thinking with Animals, by Lorraine Daston and Gregg Mitman 1. Zoomorphism in Ancient India: Humans More Bestial Than the Beasts, by Wendy Doniger 2. Intelligences: Angelic, Animal, Human, by Lorraine Daston 3. The Experimental Animal in Victorian Britain, by Paul S. White 4. Comparative Psychology Meets Evolutionary Biology: Morgan's Canon and Cladistic Parsimony, by Elliott Sober 5. Anthropomorphism and Cross-Species Modeling, by Sandra D. Mitchell 6. People in Disguise: Anthropomorphism and the Human-Pet Relationship, by James A. Serpell 7. Digital Beasts as Visual Esperanto: Getty Images and the Colonization of Sight, by Cheryce Kramer 8. Pachyderm Personalities: The Media of Science, Politics, and Conservation, by Gregg Mitman 9. Reflections on Anthropomorphism in The Disenchanted Forest, by Sarita Siegel
Responsibility: edited by Lorraine Daston and Gregg Mitman.

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Thinking with Animals...will surely join the growing literature on consciousness, animal cognition, and the continuity between human and animal minds. -- Juliet Clutton-Brock Nature Thoughtful and Read more...

 
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