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Thinking animals : animals and the development of human intelligence /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shepard, Paul, 1925-1996 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, ©1998.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD
  • 1 ON ANIMALS THINKING
  • Preparing the Soil for Thought
  • The Post-Archaic World; or How Thinkers Started the Day with Cereals
  • You Think What You Eat
  • What the Arboreal Eye Knows
  • Speech as the Summons to Images
  • The Zoology of the Self
  • Art as the Collective Imagery of Animal Form
  • 2 THE MENTAL MENAGERIE
  • Language and Taxonomy
  • The Vocal Obligations of Infancy
  • Concealed Creatures
  • Animal Protagonists
  • The Intellectual Abuse of Animals
  • Organs as Creatures
  • The Dialogue of Inside-Outside
  • 3 AMBIGUOUS ANIMALSThe Margins of Our Attention
  • Imaginary Combination Animals
  • Heads and Tails
  • Monsters
  • The Diabolical Ape
  • Monsters and Social Stress
  • The Living Coded Messages
  • 4 IMITATING ANIMALS: THE CAST OF CHARACTERS
  • The Drama of the Animal
  • Totemic Culture
  • Adornment and Animality
  • The Lele, a Contemporary Totemic Culture
  • The Game of Dividing and Dividing the Game
  • 5 PRETENDING THAT ANIMALS ARE PEOPLE: THE CHARACTER OF CASTE
  • Examples from the Thais, Nuer, and Balinese
  • Animals in the Domesticated Society
  • CaricatureAnimals in Folktales
  • Reynard
  • The Secular Bestiaries
  • Literary Thought and Animals
  • Machines as Animals
  • The Pet as Minimal Animal
  • Alone on a Domesticated Planet
  • 6 THE AESOP ACCOUNT
  • The Zoological Groups
  • The Three Faunas
  • 7 WHAT GOOD ARE ANIMALS?
  • Ecology
  • Ethics
  • The Inadequacy of Economic, Ecological, and Ethical Arguments
  • A Fourth Argument: Human Growth and Thought
  • For Parents and Teachers
  • Taxonomy and Cognition
  • Mimicry and Selfhood
  • Analogy and Abstraction
  • Animals: Our Link with the Nonhuman CosmosNOTES AND REFERENCES
  • INDEX
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
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  • I
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