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This volume is groundbreaking in examining Plutarch’s views not only in the context of ancient philosophical and ethical thought, but also in its generally overlooked place in the history of speculation on human-animal relations
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A radical questioning of what the author sees as the dangerously anthropomorphic views of Singer or Regan. Using philosophical theories such as Wittgenstein's views on language, Leahy shows that we are wrong to credit animals with consciousness.
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Green examines the intimate relationship between the Celts and animals, covering their crucial role in the Celtic economy, in hunting and warfare, in art and literature and in religion and ritual. The book covers the period between 800 BC and 400 AD.
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This book discusses how as humans we can help promote biodiversity and strive for ecological stability through reduced mammal hunting and by maintaining food... Læs mere
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Bringing together anthropologists and historians, this volume examines the range, variability and historical mutability of human sensibilities towards, and relationships to, animals in Asia.
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This book is an interdisciplinary study centred on the political and legal position of animals in liberal democracies.
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Addressing a significant gap in the interdisciplinary field of animal studies, Tuomivaara presents a close reading of the historical treatment of animals in the works of Durkheim and Westermarck to determine how the human-animal boundary was established in sociological theory.
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Beginning with the question of how animals, and their bodies, are variously mapped by humans according to their use value, it gradually unpacks the roots of our domination of ‘food’ animals – a domination distinguished by the literal embodiment of the ‘other’.
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In this edited volume, leading and emerging scholars investigate for the first time the ways in which the size of an animal population impacts how they are viewed by humans and, conversely, how human perceptions of populations impact on animals.
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