Aesop's anthropology : a multispecies approach / John Hartigan, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hartigan, John, Jr., 1964- author.

Series:

Forerunners (Minneapolis, Minn.)

Forerunners

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animals (Philosophy).

Culture.

Fables.

Social behavior in animals.

Interpersonal relations.

Physical Description:

88 pages ; 18 cm.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014?]

Summary:

Aesop's Anthropology is a guide for thinking through the perplexing predicaments and encounters that arise as the line between human and nonhuman shifts in modern life. Recognizing that culture is not unique to humans, John Hartigan Jr. asks what we can learn about culture from other species. He pursues a variety of philosophical and scientific ideas about what it means to be social using cultural dynamics to rethink what we assume makes humans special and different from other forms of life. Through an interlinked series of brief essays, Hartigan explores how we can think differently about being human.

Contents:

Are natives plants or people?

Nonhuman cultures

The social (re)turn

Diversity

Horticultural hermeneutic

Webs without meanings

What is a garden?

Homology

Species thinking

The fable as form

Model organisms

Species in the news

Identifying species

Domestication

Have culture, will travel.

Notes:

"Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780816696840

0816696845

OCLC:

892878716

Publisher Number:

99981330200