Thinking animals : animals and the development of human intelligence /
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W