| Titre : |
The others: how animals made us human |
| Type de document : |
livre |
| Auteurs : |
Shepard, P. |
| Mention d'édition : |
01 éd. |
| Editeur : |
Washington, D.C. : Island Press |
| Année de publication : |
1997 |
| Importance : |
374 p. |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-1-55963-434-2 |
| Note générale : |
Inventaire 2008: Pointé en rayon le 20/05/2008 |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Mots-clés : |
Animal behaviour Animal-human interactions Cultural development Human behavior intera Social anthropology |
| Résumé : |
The Others is a fascinating and wide-ranging examination of how diverse cultures have thought about, reacted to, and interacted with animals. Shepard argues that humans evolved watching other animal species, participating in their world, suffering them as parasites, wearing their feathers and skins, and making tools of their bones and antlers. For millennia, we have communicated their significance by dancing, sculpting, performing, imaging, narrating, and thinking them. The human species cannot be fully itself without these others. Shepard considers animals as others in a world where otherness of all kinds is in danger, and in which otherness is essential to the discovery of the true self. We must understand what to make of our encounters with animals, because as we prosper they vanish, and ultimately our prosperity may amount to nothing without them. [Résumé éditeur] |
| Note de contenu : |
Pbk; in paperback edition |
The others: how animals made us human [livre] / Shepard, P. . - 01 éd. . - Washington, D.C. : Island Press, 1997 . - 374 p. ISBN : 978-1-55963-434-2 Inventaire 2008: Pointé en rayon le 20/05/2008 Langues : Anglais ( eng)
| Mots-clés : |
Animal behaviour Animal-human interactions Cultural development Human behavior intera Social anthropology |
| Résumé : |
The Others is a fascinating and wide-ranging examination of how diverse cultures have thought about, reacted to, and interacted with animals. Shepard argues that humans evolved watching other animal species, participating in their world, suffering them as parasites, wearing their feathers and skins, and making tools of their bones and antlers. For millennia, we have communicated their significance by dancing, sculpting, performing, imaging, narrating, and thinking them. The human species cannot be fully itself without these others. Shepard considers animals as others in a world where otherness of all kinds is in danger, and in which otherness is essential to the discovery of the true self. We must understand what to make of our encounters with animals, because as we prosper they vanish, and ultimately our prosperity may amount to nothing without them. [Résumé éditeur] |
| Note de contenu : |
Pbk; in paperback edition |
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The others: how animals made us human (1997)
