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What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? /

Vinciane Despret argues that behaviors we identify as separating humans from animals do not actually properly belong to humans. She does so by exploring incredible and often funny adventures about animals and their involvements with researchers, farmers, zookeepers, handlers, and other human beings....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Despret, Vinciane (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Foreword: The Scientific Fables of an Empirical La Fontaine Bruno Latour
  • Acknowledgments
  • How to Use This Book
  • Translator's Note
  • A for Artists: Stupid like a painter?
  • B for Beasts: Do apes really ape?
  • C for Corporeal: Is it all right to urinate in front of animals?
  • D for Delinquents: Can animals revolt?
  • E for Exhibitionists: Do animals see themselves as we see them?
  • F for Fabricating Science: Do animals have a sense of prestige?
  • G for Genius: With whom would extraterrestrials want to negotiate?
  • H for Hierarchies: Might the dominance of males be a myth?
  • I for Impaired: Are animals reliable models of morality?
  • J for Justice: Can animals compromise?
  • K for Killable: Are any species killable?
  • L for Laboratory: What are rats interested in during experiments?
  • M for Magpies: How can we interest elephants in mirrors?
  • N for Necessity: Can one lead a rat to infanticide?
  • O for Oeuvres: Do birds make art?
  • P for Pretenders: Can deception be proof of good manners?
  • Q for Queer: Are penguins coming out of the closet?
  • R for Reaction: Do goats agree with statistics?
  • S for Separations: Can animals be broken down?
  • T for Tying Knots: Who invented language and mathematics?
  • U for Umwelt: Do beasts know ways of being in the world?
  • V for Versions: Do chimpanzees die like we do?
  • W for Work: Why do we say that cows don't do anything?
  • X for Xenografts: Can one live with the heart of a pig?
  • Y for YouTube: Are animals the new celebrities?
  • Z for Zoophilia: Can horses consent?
  • Notes
  • Index
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