The vectors by which the question of the animal has confronted the discipline of anthropology are both diverse—from paleoarchaeological fascination with the transition from ape to man to sociocultural accounts of human-animal conflict—and fraught insofar as they tend to loop back into one another. For instance, while posthumanism is intellectually novel, to take its line of critique seriously is to recognize that the science of man has depended on the philosophical animal from the start. A still tighter loop could be drawn around Lévi-Strauss's foundational interest in animal symbolism and the Amazonian ontologies undergirding Latour's amodern philosophy. Three related interdependencies pull hard on these loops: 1) philosophy and anthropology; 2) the human and the animal; 3) modernity and indigeneity. This last interdependency is notably undertheorized in the present efflorescence of human-animal scholarship. This article attends to some of the consequences of modernity/indigeneity's clandestine operations in the literature.
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In Environment and Society
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- 01 Sep 2013
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- 137–156 (20 total)
Afterword
For a Synaesthetics of Seeing
Naisargi N. Dave
, become beholden to a life in which – as Fryer-Moreira also puts it – one forever runs towards the other, rather than remaining more or less safely encased in our own human skins? I argued, based on what I call moral biographies of animal activists in
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
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- 01 Mar 2021
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- Research Article
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- 143–149 (7 total)
Donner la mort au gibier sur le territoire sacré de la Mecque
Une vieille controverse (VIIe-VIIIe siècles)
Hocine Benkheira
La mort de l’animal a souvent préoccupé les religions. Nous avons déjà montré dans des recherches précédentes que le rituel de la mise à mort pour la boucherie comme pour le sacrifice s’explique en grande partie comme une tentative de surmonter la
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Mar 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 36–50 (15 total)
The Queer Death of the Hanged Dog
The 1677 Execution of Mary Higgs’ Mongrel
Jennifer Lodine-Chaffey
for destroying animals involved in bestiality found their basis in biblical texts, fears of crossbreeding, and attempts to maintain the boundaries between humans and animals, the dog's execution, I argue, effectively queers the ritual by destabilizing
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Mar 2023
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- Research Article
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- 1–16 (16 total)
Realizing Interspecies Democracy
The Preconditions for an Egalitarian, Multispecies, World
Sue Donaldson, Janneke Vink, and Jean-Paul Gagnon
interested in the injustices inherent in the in equality of relations between the species of people, we humans, and those species—animal, vegetal, fungal, animate, inanimate, etc.—that are not human but that do, and may, constitute both humans (as in their
Shakespearean Boars and Dolphins
Representing Character through Animal Dreams in Richard III and Antony and Cleopatra
Claude Fretz
narrative contexts in which they occur. The present article sets out to advance our understanding of Shakespeare's intertwining of dream, drama, and character by investigating how the playwright uses oneiric animal imagery to highlight the characterological
Other Sides
Loving and Grieving with Heart of a Dog and Merleau-Ponty's Depth
Saige Walton
we share with animals and to animal grievability. It is also a heartfelt portrait of Lolabelle herself, which is filtered through the stories, sounds, memories, and imagined perspectives of Anderson, her human owner. Watching Heart of a Dog for
A Theory of ‘Animal Borders’
Thoughts and Practices toward Non-human Animals among the G|ui Hunter-Gatherers
Kazuyoshi Sugawara
The purpose of this article is to outline a theory of ‘animal borders’ based on ethnographic materials I have collected over the past two decades among the G|ui Bushmen living in the Central Kalahari Desert, Botswana, in Southern Africa. First, I
In Social Analysis
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2017
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- Research Article
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- 100–117 (18 total)
The two faces of character
Moral tales of animal behaviour
Matei Candea
In order to ask what work the elusive concept of ‘character’ might do for anthropology, this article first asks what work the concept does for Euro‐American epistemology more broadly. It examines two invocations of ‘character’ in relation to animals at a scientific research site in South Africa. The first is the commonplace use of the term to denote the way the research subjects have been made into ‘characters’ on the TV show . The second is the technical term ‘biological character’ – the basic unit of contemporary evolutionary biology, and the main object of study at the site. These two characters are more than mere homonyms – they hark back to related concerns about purposive action, they populate conflicting moral narratives, and they operate on the threshold between self‐conscious fiction and essential truth. Building on this case, I argue that the distinctive value of the concept of character for anthropology resides in its ambivalence – the way it can point both to a contrived mask (a character in an account) and to the very essence of the entity in question (its true character). Such ambivalence maps a particular social form, which echoes across the anthropology of institutions, of ethics and of knowledge.
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Aug 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 361–375 (14 total)
Mark S. Micale
book indicates little awareness of the growing literature produced by our profession on this subject. The third category missing from Pinker’s provocative argument that the current era is the most peaceful time in history is violence against animals
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 128–139 (12 total)