Images of Animals by Eileen Crist
Examines the literature of behavioral science, revealing how works with the common aim of documenting animal lives, habits, and instincts describe realities that are world's apart'. This title explains the Cartesian verdict of an unbridgeable chasm between animals and humans and the Darwinian panorama of evolutionary continuity.
"From anthorpomorphism to zoomorphism, Crist analyzes the language used to portray animal behavior in the behavioral science literature: from Darwin's stance of evolutionary continuity to ethologist Samuel Barnett's disavowal of studying anything other than observable behavior in 'realities that are worlds apart'" -Book News "...an important exposition of matters of great importance in understanding the relationships of human knowledge and animal actors and the intersection of human language and animal behavior." -Isis "...an original, insightful, sophisticated, and lucidly written analysis of the powerful role that language plays in constructing our understanding of animal life. ... very much worth the attention of all those interested in how language shapes the way we think, and how, as human minds approach the subject of animal minds, anthropomorphism may have something going for it." -Science, Technology, and Human Values "The author critically reviews the observation language of historical contributors to the study of animal behavior (Darwin, naturalists, ethologists, behaviorists and sociobiologists)." -The Quarterly Review of Biology
Eileen Crist is Assistant Professor at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781566397889 |
| ISBN 10 | 156639788X |
| Title | Images of Animals |
| Author | Eileen Crist |
| Series | Animals Culture And Society |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Temple University Press,U.S. |
| Year published | 2000-04-19 |
| Number of pages | 245 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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