| Description |
230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Lorraine Daston and Gregg Mitman -- Ch. 1. Zoomorphism in ancient India : humans more bestial than beasts / Wendy Doniger -- Ch. 2. Intelligences : angelic, animal, human / Lorraine Daston -- Ch. 3. The experimental animal in Victorian Britain / Paul S. White -- Ch. 4. Comparative psychology meets evolutionary biology : Morgan's canon and cladistic parsimony / Elliott Sober -- Ch. 5. Anthropomorphism and cross-species modeling / Sandra D. Mitchell -- Ch. 6. People in disguise : anthropomorphism and the human-pet relationship / James A. Serpell -- Ch. 7. Digital beasts as visual Esperanto : Getty images and the colonization of sight / Cheryce Kramer -- Ch. 8. Pachyderm personalities : the media of science, politics, and conservation / Gregg Mitman -- Ch. 9. Reflections on anthropomorphism in The disenchanted forest / Sarita Siegel |
| Summary |
"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 on many stages and in different ways, animals move us to think." |
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"Essays in the book investigate the changing patterns of anthropomorphism across different time periods and settings, as well as their transformative effects, both figuratively and literally, upon animals, humans, and their interactions. Examining how anthropomorphic thinking "works" in a range of different contexts, contributors reveal the ways in which anthropomorphism turns out to be remarkably useful: it can promote good health and spirits, enlist support in political causes, sell products across boundaries of culture and nationality, crystallize and strengthen social values, and hold up a philosophical mirror to the human predicament."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
This book derived from a workshop held at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin in May 2001 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page) |
| Subject |
Anthropomorphism.
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| Author |
Daston, Lorraine, 1951-
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Mitman, Gregg.
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| LC no. |
2004055102 |
| ISBN |
0231130384 cloth alkaline paper |
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0231130384 cloth |
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