Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on AnthropomorphismLorraine Daston, Gregg Mitman Columbia University Press, 2 feb 2005 - 240 páginas Is anthropomorphism a scientific sin? Scientists and animal researchers routinely warn against "animal stories," and contrast rigorous explanations and observation to facile and even fanciful projections about animals. Yet many of us, scientists and researchers included, continue to see animals as humans and humans as animals. As this innovative new collection demonstrates, humans use animals to transcend the confines of self and species; they also enlist them to symbolize, dramatize, and illuminate aspects of humans' experience and fantasy. Humans merge with animals in stories, films, philosophical speculations, and scientific treatises. In their performance with humans on many stages and in different ways, animals move us to think. |
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1 Zoomorphism in Ancient India | |
2 Intelligences | |
3 The Experimental Animal in Victorian Britain | |
4 Comparative Psychology Meets Evolutionary Biology | |
5 Anthropomorphism and CrossSpecies Modeling | |
6 People in Disguise | |
7 Digital Beasts as Visual Esperanto | |
8 Pachyderm Personalities | |
9 Reflections on Anthropomorphism in The Disenchanted Forest | |
Contributors | |
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