What is an animal?

Author(s)

• Ingold, Tim
• World Archaeological Congress

Bibliographic Information

What is an animal?

edited by Tim Ingold

（One world archaeology, 1）

Unwin Hyman, 1988

Note

Papers from the World Archaeological Congress held in Southampton, England, in Sept. 1986

Includes bibliographies and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book offers a unique interdisciplinary challenge to assumptions about animals and animality deeply embedded in our own ways of thought, and at the same time exposes highly sensitive and largely unexplored aspects of the understanding of our common humanity.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 Introduction, Tim Ingold
• Chapter 2 Is humanity a natural kind?, Stephen R. L. Clark
• Chapter 3 Beasts, brutes and monsters, Mary Midgley
• Chapter 4 Animality, humanity, morality, society, Richard Tapper
• Chapter 5 'Animal' in biological and semiotic perspective, Thomas A. Sebeok
• Chapter 6 Animals attitudes to people, Jennie Coy
• Chapter 7 The animal in the study of humanity, Tim Ingold
• Chapter 8 Organisms and minds: the dialectics of the animal-human interface in biology, Brian Goodwin
• Chapter 9 The affordances of the animate environment: social science from the ecological point of view, Edward S. Reed
• Chapter 10 Becoming human, our links with our past, Nancy Makepeace Tanner
• Chapter 11 Human animality, the mental imagery of fear, and religiosity, Balaji Mundkur

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Details

• NCID: BA0436831X
• ISBN:
  • 0044450125
• LCCN: 87029005
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 189 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : GN280.7
  • DC19 : 128
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Man -- Animal nature -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Human behavior -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Animal behavior -- Congresses
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA04368513