Research Catalog

Title

Experiencing animal minds : an anthology of animal-human encounters / edited by Julie A. Smith and Robert W. Mitchell.

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, [2012], ©2012.

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Additional Authors

• Smith, Julie A. (Julie Ann), 1944 October 27-
• Mitchell, Robert W., 1958-

Description

vii, 380 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Critical perspectives on animals : theory, culture, science, and law

Uniform Title

Critical perspectives on animals.

Subjects

• Human-animal relationships
• Cognition in animals
• Consciousness in animals
• Animal psychology
• Animal behavior
• Animal communication
• Philosophy of mind

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Engaging Animal Minds : Matters of Perspective / Robert W. Mitchell and Julie A. Smith -- Living with Animals -- The Mental Life of Chickens as Observed Through Their Social Relationships / Karen Davis -- Tangible Affiliations : Photographic Representations of Touch Between Human and Animal Companions / Julia Schlosser -- Beaver Voices : Grey Owl and Interspecies Communication / Albert Braz -- Anthropomorphisms -- The Historical Animal Mind : "Sagacity" in Nineteenth-Century Britain / Rob Boddice -- Science of the Monkey Mind : Primate Penchants and Human Pursuits / Sara Waller -- Can Animals Make "Art"? Popular and Scientific Discourses About Expressivity and Cognition in Primates / Jane Desmond -- Embodiments and Interembodiments -- Toward a Privileging of the Nonverbal : Communication, Corporeal Synchronicity, and Transcendence in Humans and Horses / Gala Argent -- Thinking Like a Whale : Interdisciplinary Methods for the Study of Human-Animal Interactions / Traci Warkentin -- The Meaning of "Energy" in Cesar Millan's Discourse on Dogs / Julie A. Smith -- Inner Experience as Perception(like) with Attitude / Robert W. Mitchell --
• The Voice of the Living : Becoming-Artistic and the Creaturely Refrain in D.H. Lawrence's "Tortoise Shout" / Carrie Rohman -- Unique Attributes of the Elephant Mind : Perspectives on the Human Mind / Benjamin L. Hart and Lynette A. Hart -- Brains, Bodies, and Minds : Against a Hierarchy of Animal Faculties / David Dillard-Wright -- Animal Versus Human Consciousness -- Rethinking the Cognitive Abilities of Animals / Gary Steiner -- Assessing Evidence for Animal Consciousness : The Question of Episodic Memory / Paula Droege -- What Are Animals Conscious Of? / Alain Morin -- Tailoring Representations to Audiences -- Chimpanzees Attribute Beliefs? A New Approach to Answering an Old Nettled Question / Robert W. Lurz -- Minding the Animal in Contemporary Art / Jessica Ullrich -- Popular Beliefs and Understanding of the Dolphin Mind / Jessica Sickler, John Fraser, and Diana Reiss -- Perceiving the Minds of Animals : Sociological Warfare, the Social Imaginary, and Mediated Representations of Animals Shaping Human Understandings of Animals / Brian M. Lowe -- Synthesis -- Animal Ethics and Animals' Minds : Reflections / Julie A. Smith and Robert W. Mitchell.

ISBN

• 9780231161503 (cloth : acid-free paper)
• 0231161506 (cloth : acid-free paper)
• 9780231161510 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
• 0231161514 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
• 9780231530767 (e-book)
• 0231530765 (e-book)

LCCN

2012012481

OCLC

• ocn794366378
• 794366378
• SCSB-5662542

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries