HUMANS AND OTHER ANIMALS

by ARIEN MACK, Marc Bekoff (Foreword by)

Overview

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 landmark conference to explore human/animal interactions. Published as a special issue of the journal Social Research (under the title In the Company of Animals), this collection is now available for the first time in a book edition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814250174
Publisher:	Ohio State University Press
Publication date:	03/01/1999
Edition description:	1
Pages:	464
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Marc Bekoff is professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has published more than thirty books, is a former Guggenheim Fellow, and was awarded the Exemplar Award from the Animal Behavior Society for long-term significant contributions to the field of animal behavior.

Table of Contents

	Foreword	vii
	Editor's Introduction	xiii
	Categories
	Introduction	3
	Aristotle, the Scale of Nature, and Modern Attitudes to Animals	5
	A Taxonomy of Knowing: Animals Captive, Free-Ranging, and at Liberty	25
	"I Named Them As They Passed": Kinds of Animals and Humankind	41
	Histories
	Introduction	63
	Border Trouble: Shifting the Line between People and Other Animals	67
	The Spotted Hyena from Aristotle to the Lion King: Reputation Is Everything	87
	Animals and the Law: Property, Cruelty, Rights	125
	Keynote Address	195
	Representations
	Introduction	227
	Fabling Beasts: Traces in Memory	229
	Authored Animals: Creature Tropes in Native American Fiction	249
	Sameness and Difference
	Introduction	275
	Animal Consciousness: What Matters and Why	281
	Primate Language and Cognition: Common Ground	301
	Animal Minds, Animal Morality	321
	Everyday Life
	Introduction	341
	The Mythology of Masquerading Animals, or, Bestiality	343
	Hunting and Humanity in Western Thought	365
	Scientists and Animal Research: Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde?	379
	A Consideration of Policy Implications: A Panel Discussion	393
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	Index	431