If you tame me : understanding our connection with animals / Leslie Irvine ; foreword by Marc Bekoff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Irvine, Leslie.

Series:

Animals, culture, and society.

Animals, culture, and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dogs--Behavior.

Dogs.

Cats--Behavior.

Cats.

Dogs--Psychology.

Cats--Psychology.

Human-animal relationships.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 223 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Nearly everyone who cares about them believes that dogs and cats have a sense of self that renders them unique. Traditional science and philosophy declare such notions about our pets to be irrational and anthropomorphic. Animals, they say, have only the crudest form of thought and no sense of self at all. Leslie Irvine's If You Tame Me challenges these entrenched views by demonstrating that our experience of animals and their behavior tells a different story. Dogs and cats have been significant elements in human history and valued members of our households for centuries.

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 How and Why; 2 Them and Us; 3 From Pets to Companion Animals; 4 Looking at Animals/Glimpses of Selves; 5 The Adopters: Making a Match; 6 Rethinking the Self: Mead's Myopia; 7 Self versus Other: The Core Self; 8 Self with Other: Intersubjectivity; Conclusion: Putting Theory into Practice; Appendix: Methods; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-217) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-58189-9

9786612581892

1-59213-791-1

OCLC:

232160247