Title Statements
- Full title :What is an animal? / edited by Tim Ingold.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2016.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2016.
Notes
"First published in 1988 by Routledge."
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781134948178, 1134948174, 9781134948246, 1134948247, 9781134948314, 113494831X, 9781315539126, 1315539128
- oclc:ocn948604339
- LC Classification:GN280.7
- Dewey Decimal:128
Table of Contents
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; List of contributors; Foreword; Table of Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; The limits of the animate; Animality and humanity; Intentionality and language; Animals and automata; Anthropocentrism and human uniqueness; Culture and the human construction of animality; The environment of animals; Human-animal relations; References; 2 Is humanity a natural kind?; Preface; Folk taxonomy and scientific taxa; The unity of humankind; Humans in context, and transcendent selves; References; 3 Beasts, brutes and monsters; The problem; Origins; Outer darkness.
Widening the gapWhich costs more?; Solipsists and sceptics; Fixing the burden of proof; Ignoring elephants; Notes; References; 4 Animality, humanity, morality, society; Humans as animals; Totemic thought; Human-animal relations of production; Animals as metaphor in different production systems; Anthropomorphism and ethnocentrism; Notes; References; 5 'Animal' in biological and semiotic perspective; Notes; References; 6 Animals' attitudes to people; Introduction; What I mean by an animal; People interacting with other species; Other species interacting with people.
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