What is an Animal?

Revised Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-415-09556-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 324 g

Reihe: One World Archaeology

This book offers a unique interdisciplinary challenge to assumptions about animals and animality deeply embedded in our own ways of thought, and at the same time exposes highly sensitive and largely unexplored aspects of the understanding of our common humanity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ingold, Tim

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Tierpathologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläozoologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Tierethologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Soziale & wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen von Umweltfaktoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Introduction, Tim Ingold; Chapter 2 Is humanity a natural kind?, Stephen R. L. Clark; Chapter 3 Beasts, brutes and monsters, Mary Midgley; Chapter 4 Animality, humanity, morality, society, Richard Tapper; Chapter 5 ‘Animal’ in biological and semiotic perspective, Thomas A. Sebeok; Chapter 6 Animals attitudes to people, Jennie Coy; Chapter 7 The animal in the study of humanity, Tim Ingold; Chapter 8 Organisms and minds: the dialectics of the animal–human interface in biology, Brian Goodwin; Chapter 9 The affordances of the animate environment: social science from the ecological point of view, Edward S. Reed; Chapter 10 Becoming human, our links with our past, Nancy Makepeace Tanner; Chapter 11 Human animality, the mental imagery of fear, and religiosity, Balaji Mundkur;

Über Autor(innen)

Ingold, Tim