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Humans and Other Animals

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Throughout history and in all places, animals have been an essential part of human culture. They have been hunted and domesticated, studied and mythologized, feared and loved. Our complicated relationships with other animals have repeatedly found expression in art, literature, religion and science. In 1995, the New School for Social Research sponsored a conference to explore human/animal interactions. Published as a special issue of the journal Social Research , this collection is here presented in one volume.

Contents:
Foreword / Marc Bekoff --
Editor's Introduction / Arien Mack --
Introduction / Harriet Ritvo --
Aristotle, the Scale of Nature, and Modern Attitudes to Animals / Juliet Clutton-Brock --
A Taxonomy of Knowing: Animals Captive, Free-Ranging, and at Liberty / Vicki Hearne --
"I Named Them As They Passed": Kinds of Animals and Humankind / John Hollander --
Introduction / Nicholas Humphrey --
Border Trouble: Shifting the Line between People and Other Animals / Harriet Ritvo --
The Spotted Hyena from Aristotle to the Lion King: Reputation Is Everything / Stephen E. Glickman --
Animals and the Law: Property, Cruelty, Rights / Jerrold Tannenbaum --
Keynote Address / Stephen Jay Gould --
Introduction / John Hollander.

Language: English

Pages: 464

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Ohio State University Press

Release: March 01, 1999

ISBN: 0814208177

ISBN 13: 9780814208175

Humans and Other Animals

0/5 ( ratings)

Throughout history and in all places, animals have been an essential part of human culture. They have been hunted and domesticated, studied and mythologized, feared and loved. Our complicated relationships with other animals have repeatedly found expression in art, literature, religion and science. In 1995, the New School for Social Research sponsored a conference to explore human/animal interactions. Published as a special issue of the journal Social Research , this collection is here presented in one volume.

Contents:
Foreword / Marc Bekoff --
Editor's Introduction / Arien Mack --
Introduction / Harriet Ritvo --
Aristotle, the Scale of Nature, and Modern Attitudes to Animals / Juliet Clutton-Brock --
A Taxonomy of Knowing: Animals Captive, Free-Ranging, and at Liberty / Vicki Hearne --
"I Named Them As They Passed": Kinds of Animals and Humankind / John Hollander --
Introduction / Nicholas Humphrey --
Border Trouble: Shifting the Line between People and Other Animals / Harriet Ritvo --
The Spotted Hyena from Aristotle to the Lion King: Reputation Is Everything / Stephen E. Glickman --
Animals and the Law: Property, Cruelty, Rights / Jerrold Tannenbaum --
Keynote Address / Stephen Jay Gould --
Introduction / John Hollander.

Language: English

Pages: 464

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Ohio State University Press

Release: March 01, 1999

ISBN: 0814208177

ISBN 13: 9780814208175

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