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Permalink Reply by Kathleen Lowrey on June 8, 2009 at 5:52pm

I am sure people know it, but Donna Haraway's "Companion Species Manifesto" is awesome.

Permalink Reply by Francine Barone on June 8, 2009 at 8:05pm

Here's a classic on animals as symbols and anomalies:

Leach, Edmund. 1964. "Anthropological Aspects of Language: Animal Categories and Verbal Abuse", in E. H. Lenneberg (ed.), New Directions in the Study of Language. Cambridge: MIT Press.

From a similar line of thinking:

Halverson, J. 1976. "Animal Categories and Terms of Abuse", JRAI, Man (New Series), 11(4): 505-16.

Tambiah, S. 1969. "Animals are Good to Think and Good to Prohibit", Ethnology, 8(4): 423–59.

I had fun with these as an undergrad.

Permalink Reply by Isabel Cardana on June 10, 2009 at 3:33am

Thanks for sharing!

Permalink Reply by Isabel Cardana on June 17, 2009 at 12:55pm

Syllabus Exchange at H-Net H-Animal Discussion Network

Permalink Reply by Isabel Cardana on June 23, 2009 at 11:05pm

* Humans and Other Animals [website] click here

Permalink Reply by Isabel Cardana on June 23, 2009 at 11:06pm

I recently bought D. Haraway's "When species meet" - very very nice.

Kathleen Lowrey said:

I am sure people know it, but Donna Haraway's "Companion Species Manifesto" is awesome.

Permalink Reply by Rosalie Allain on July 17, 2009 at 4:30pm

Animals as Reflexive Thinkers
Domestication and Predation:

Nadasdy, Paul. 2007. The Gift in the Animal: The Ontology of Hunting and Human-Animal Sociality. American Ethnologist 34(1): 25-43.

Willerslev, Rane. 2004. Not Animal, Not Not-Animal: Hunting, Imitation and Empathetic Knowledge among the Siberian Yukaghirs. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 10(3): 629-652.

Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo. 2004. Exchanging Perspectives: The Transformation of Objects into Subjects in Amerindian Ontologies. Common Knowledge 10(3): 463-484.

Animals as Symbols and Companions
Animals in Science, Education and Therapy:

Taussig, Karen-Sue. 2004. Bovine Abominations: Genetic Culture and Politics in the Netherlands. Cultural Anthropology 19(3): 305-336.

Permalink Reply by Natalie Djohari on August 20, 2009 at 2:21pm

unfortunately this site appears to be shut down now :(

Isabel Cardana said:

* Humans and Other Animals [website] click here

Permalink Reply by Piers Locke on September 18, 2009 at 9:38pm

Great book. It was an absolute pleasure to meet Donna and hear her speak at the final meeting of the British Animal Studies Network (BASN) in London in February of this year. Perhaps I can invite her to the 2011 meeting of the ASA at Lampeter on Human interactions with living things.

Isabel Cardana said:

I recently bought D. Haraway's "When species meet" - very very nice.

Kathleen Lowrey said:

I am sure people know it, but Donna Haraway's "Companion Species Manifesto" is awesome.

Permalink Reply by Piers Locke on September 18, 2009 at 9:42pm

MA in Anthrozoology at the University of Wales, Lampeter. See: http://www.lamp.ac.uk/archanth/postgrad/anthrozoology/
Further site content and improvements coming soon!

This programme has been initiated by Dr Sam Hurn, Dr Piers Locke, and Dr. Penny Dransart form the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology.

See also the Anthrozoology group on Facebook.

Permalink Reply by Piers Locke on September 23, 2009 at 1:02am

A fantastic recent discovery for me has been Raymond Corbey's 'The Metaphysics of Apes: Negotiating The Human-Animal Boundary' (Cambridge University Press 2005)

"The Metaphysics of Apes traces the discovery and interpretation of the human-like great apes and the ape-like earliest ancestors of present-day humans. It shows how, from the days of Linnaeus to recent research, the sacred and taboo-ridden animal-human boundary was time and again challenged and adjusted. The unique dignity of humans, a central idea and value in the West, was, and to some extent still is, centrally on the minds of taxonomists, ethnologists, primatologists, and archaeologists. It has guided their research to a considerable extent. The basic presupposition was that humans are not entirely part of nature but, as symbolizing minds and as moral persons, transcend nature. This book thus is the first to offer an anthropological analysis of the burgeoning anthropological disciplines in terms of their own cultural taboos and philosophical preconceptions."

Permalink Reply by Gonçalo Praça on October 1, 2009 at 1:48am

Here's a few blogs on human - non-human relations:
http://human-nonhuman.blogspot.com/
http://hslf.typepad.com/political_animal/
http://criticalanimal.blogspot.com/

and, to close the circle, the new and hot Inhumanities -- where I found the first reference to this group:
http://inhumanities.wordpress.com/

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