What is an Animal?Tim Ingold 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. |
Contents
1 Introduction | 1 |
2 Is humanity a natural kind? | 17 |
3 Beasts brutes and monsters | 35 |
4 Animality humanity morality society | 47 |
5 Animal in biological and semiotic perspective | 63 |
6 Animals attitudes to people | 77 |
7 The animal in the study of humanity | 84 |
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